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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 30, 2022Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2022, 5:09 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 2022, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2022, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 170 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -66 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Aug 29, 6:36 PM CDT, 22 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 6:36 PM CDT, 22 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 9:11 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPCalhoun, Victoria2 hr
Aug 30, 11:45 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPBee, Goliad, Refugio60 min
Aug 30, 1:23 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP37 min
Aug 30, 3:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPZapata37 min
Aug 30, 4:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPMcMullen29 min
Aug 30, 4:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPZapata26 min
Aug 30, 4:51 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPLa Salle, McMullen3 hr
Aug 30, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPWebb32 min
Aug 30, 5:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPLa Salle, McMullen3 hr
Aug 30, 5:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPWebb25 min
Aug 30, 5:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPWebb31 min
Aug 30, 6:02 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPWebb3 hr
Aug 30, 6:22 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPLa Salle, Webb3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.