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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

September 8, 2018Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this river flood warning at Sep 8, 2018, 8:03 AM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 9, 2018, 9:18 PM CDT. It was in force for 37 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 8, 2018, 8:03 AM CDT (13:03 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 9, 2018, 9:18 PM CDT
Expired: Sep 11, 2018, 10:09 AM CDT
In force: 37 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Rio Grande at Laredo (LDOT2).

Action stage: 7 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08459000, 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 Sep 8, 6:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 6:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 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
Sep 7, 9:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	36 min
Sep 7, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	25 min
Sep 8, 4:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle and 5 more	3 days
Sep 8, 12:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Bee	67 min
Sep 8, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	51 min
Sep 8, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	29 min

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.