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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2021, 7:00 AM CDT for Aransas County, Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2021, 7:00 AM CDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2021, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Aransas County, TX, Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:30 AM CDT | FLOOD | 1 Ssw Rockport, TX | HIGH WATER OVER A FEW ROADS IN ROCKPORT AND FULTON. TIME ESTIMATED BY PHONE CALL. |
| Jul 7, 9:19 AM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 12.17 | 6 Nne Fulton, TX | PUBLIC MEASURED OVER A FOOT OF RAIN IN LAMAR, TX SINCE 12 AM TUESDAY, JULY 6TH. |
| Jul 7, 10:00 AM CDT | FLOOD | 1 W Rockport, TX | PUBLIC REPORTS PHOTOS OF AN ENTIRE BACKYARD COVERED IN A FEW INCHES OF WATER. TIME ESTIMATED FROM POST ISSUANCE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
890
WGUS54 KCRP 071200
FFWCRP
TXC007-391-071500-
/O.NEW.KCRP.FF.W.0030.210707T1200Z-210707T1500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
700 AM CDT Wed Jul 7 2021
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Western Aransas County in south central Texas...
South Central Refugio County in south central Texas...
* Until 1000 AM CDT.
* At 700 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain across the
warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen this
morning. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible
in the next couple of hours in the warned area. Flash flooding is
ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Rockport, Lamar, Bayside, Copano Village, Key Allegro, Palm
Harbor, Holiday Beach and Fulton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 2814 9732 2824 9704 2800 9691 2784 9704
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
$$
PHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 35 min | |
| Jul 6, 8:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Nueces | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 9:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Nueces | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 10:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 11 days |
| Jul 6, 10:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Nueces | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Refugio, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:25 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 65 min | |
| Jul 7, 3:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 7 days |
| Jul 7, 3:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 5 days |
| Jul 7, 4:26 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Jul 7, 5:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 28 min | |
| Jul 7, 8:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 119 min |
| Jul 7, 9:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:34 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 8 days |
| Jul 7, 9:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 14 min | |
| Jul 7, 11:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:06 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 54 min | |
| Jul 7, 1:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 116 min |
| Jul 7, 1:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 113 min |
| Jul 7, 2:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio | 119 min |
| Jul 7, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 118 min | |
| Jul 7, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Jul 7, 3:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Jul 7, 4:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Jim Wells | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 113 min | |
| Jul 7, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 81 min |
| Jul 7, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Jim Wells | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 91 min | |
| Jul 7, 6:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 4 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.