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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood watch at Aug 24, 2017, 4:48 AM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 25, 2017, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2017, 4:48 AM CDT (09:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 25, 2017, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2017, 2:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 54 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Aug 24, 12:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 12:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:33 AM CDT | Hurricane Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 5 more | 56 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:33 AM CDT | Storm Surge Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 3 days |
| Aug 24, 4:33 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 7 more | 5 days |
| Aug 24, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Live Oak, Refugio and 2 more | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Goliad | 38 min |
| Aug 24, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | McMullen | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 43 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.