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River Flood Warning 34, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 16, 2018Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 16, 2018, 2:29 PM CDT for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 21, 2018, 12:27 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2018, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 21, 2018, 12:27 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2018, 8:36 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 river

Written for the forecast point Frio River at Tilden (TIDT2). The gauge peaked at 21.01 ft at Oct 15, 2018, 3:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
22 ft
Moderate stage
26 ft
Major stage
27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08206600, 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 Oct 15, 3:39 PM CDT, 22 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 3:39 PM CDT, 22 hours 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 8:53 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPNueces, San Patricio5 days
Oct 16, 8:57 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPMcMullen34 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2018Every river flood warning in 2018

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.