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River Flood Warning 52, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 6, 2018Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this river flood warning at Dec 6, 2018, 10:38 AM CST for Bee County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 8, 2018, 11:18 AM CST. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 6, 2018, 10:38 AM CST (16:38 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 8, 2018, 11:18 AM CST
Expired: Dec 9, 2018, 5:33 PM CST
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Bee County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:41 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 Aransas River near Skidmore (SKMT2). The gauge peaked at 13.73 ft at Dec 8, 2018, 5:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08189700, 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 Dec 5, 3:18 PM CST, 19 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 5, 3:18 PM CST, 19 hours 20 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
Dec 6, 3:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, La Salle, Live Oak and 3 more	47 hr
Dec 6, 9:20 AM CST	River Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	7 days
Dec 6, 9:20 AM CST	River Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria	11 days
Dec 6, 9:23 AM CST	River Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	4 days
Dec 6, 10:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	24 hr
Dec 6, 10:30 AM CST	River Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	5 days
Dec 6, 10:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	CRP	McMullen	5 days
Dec 6, 10:41 AM CST	River Flood Warning	CRP	Refugio	5 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2018 Every 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.