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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 21, 2018Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 21, 2018, 8:18 AM CDT for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 22, 2018, 5:48 AM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 21, 2018, 8:18 AM CDT (13:18 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 22, 2018, 5:48 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 23, 2018, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 hr
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 13:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Frio River at Tilden (TIDT2). The gauge peaked at 21.87 ft at Oct 22, 2018, 12:00 PM CDT.

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 20, 3:59 PM CDT, 16 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 3:59 PM CDT, 16 hours 19 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
Oct 21, 11:16 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	5 days
Oct 21, 3:08 PM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio	5 days

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.