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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 22, 2016Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this river flood warning at Aug 22, 2016, 10:00 AM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It took effect at Aug 23, 2016, 4:36 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 22, 2016, 10:00 AM CDT (15:00 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 23, 2016, 4:36 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 26, 2016, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Live Oak County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Nueces River near Three Rivers (THET2). The gauge peaked at 30.41 ft at Aug 24, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 27 ft
Major stage: 35 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08210000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Aug 21, 6:43 PM CDT, 15 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 6:43 PM CDT, 15 hours 17 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	32 min
Aug 22, 3:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2016 Every river flood warning in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.