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River Flood Warning 53, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this river flood warning at Dec 6, 2018, 10:41 AM CST for Refugio County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 8, 2018, 10:02 PM CST. It was in force for 63 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 6, 2018, 10:41 AM CST (16:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 8, 2018, 10:02 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 11, 2018, 1:23 PM CST
- In force
- 63 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Moderate
County Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:41 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 Mission River at Refugio (REFT2). The gauge peaked at 24.49 ft at Dec 10, 2018, 5:00 AM CST.
- Action stage
- 20 ft
- Minor stage
- 23 ft
- Moderate stage
- 26 ft
- Major stage
- 30 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08189500, 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 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 5, 3:18 PM CST, 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 10:38 AM CST | River Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 3 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.