Texas, 2001

Flash Flood in Texas, May 5, 2001

May 5, 2001 · NWS CRP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 5, 1:45 PM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:45 PM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
245 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001

SHORT TERM...APPEARS ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
FIRING ALONG THE DRYLINE W OF ABI AND SJT THIS AFTERNOON.
ALSO...CONVECTION IS BECOMING ORGANIZED JUST NORTH OF CWA BUT MOVING
NORTH.  ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD EAST AND SHOULD AFFECT N PARTS OF CWA
THIS EVENING.  RATHER VIGOROUS UPPER SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH
NORTH TX AND SHOULD SUSTAIN ACTIVITY WELL INTO TONIGHT.  WILL
THEREFORE...HAVE 30-40 PERCENT POPS OVER MOST N ZONES TONIGHT...20
PERCENT ELSEWHERE.  LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED IN SURFACE PATTERN
OVER NEXT FEW DAYS.  MODELS ARE MAINTAINING GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT FOR
SUNDAY...BUT SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE FOCUSED ALONG
STATIONARY BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL TX.  THERE IS STILL
ENOUGH INSTABILITY...AND POSSIBLY AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...TO WARRANT
POPS FOR DIURNAL ACTIVITY AS ADVERTISED IN THE CURRENT FORECAST.

EXTENDED...FRONT WILL NOT MOVE TOO MUCH FURTHER SOUTH AND SHOULD
BECOME DIFFUSE BY TUESDAY.  TIME HEIGHT PLOTS FROM MRF AND 12Z AVN
INDICATE MORE SHALLOW MOISTURE ACROSS AREA BY MIDWEEK.  ALSO...WITH
UPPER HIGH SHIFTING ACROSS AREA...WILL HAVE DRY WEATHER FOR
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. S/W ENERGY SHOULD APPROACH SOUTH TEXAS LATE
IN THE WEEK SO WILL LIKELY INTRODUCE POPS AGAIN ON FRIDAY.

MARINE...WILL GO WITH SCEC TONIGHT FOR ALL AREAS AS WINDS SPEEDS
HAVE DECREASE SOME...AND FORCING WILL BE SLIGHTLY WEAKER TONIGHT.
MODELS MAINTAIN A MODERATE SE FLOW...BUT THE GRADIENT WILL BE TIGHT
ENOUGH TO WARRANT SCEC CONDITIONS ON SUNDAY.

TIDE LEVELS ARE RUNNING .5 TO 1 FOOT ABOVE NORMAL...BUT THIS IS
POSING NO PROBLEM CURRENTLY...AND SHOULD DISSIPATE TONIGHT.

CRP EE 072/086 069/086 067 72222
VCT EE 069/081 067/083 065 72322
LRD EB 071/091 071/092 069 72211

 AP...72 SYN
JMC...84 MESO

.CRP...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 6:15 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
715 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0505 PM    1 W CHARCO                TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/05/01   GOLIAD                         REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0625 PM    1 SW MC FADDIN                 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/01   VICTORIA                       REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0635 PM    4 S VICTORIA                   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/01   VICTORIA                       REPORTED BY LOCAL SPOTTER

COYNE

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Goliad

When
May 5, 9:10 PM CST
Where
Goliad County, Goliad
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
28.657, -97.426 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flooding reported on highway 59 and 183 with numerous county roads closed.

What these are

Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5247166.