1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Sep 5, 9:35 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1035 AM CDT WED SEP 5 2001 12Z CRP SOUNDING CONTS TO INDICATE AMPLE MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. MODELS SHOW SFC AND UPPER LEVEL LOW DRIFTING N TODAY WITH RELATIVELY DRIER MID/UPPER LEVEL AIRMASS MOVING IN. AGREE WITH MID SHIFT THAT BEST PRECIP CHANCES WILL SHIFT N AND W THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WV SAT SHOWS DRIER MID/UPPER LEVEL AIRMASS ROTATING IN FROM THE WEST AROUND UPPER LOW LOCATED OVER CENTRAL TX. FEEL COMBINATION OF A 50 KNOT UPPER LEV JET NOSING IN ACROSS WEST TX...BLY FORCING/SFC CONV AND MID LEVEL DRYING...WILL PRODUCE STRONG TSRAS WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF FA AND...TO A LESSER DEGREE...NRN ZONES LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. WITH SATURATED GROUNDS...WILL NOT TAKE MUCH TO FLOOD. CURRENT ZONES ON TRACK AND WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES ATTM. MARINE FCST ALSO LOOKS GOOD. .CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-239>247 THROUGH THIS EVENING. RIVER FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-243>247 THROUGH TONIGHT. 81/TE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
129 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM PORT LAVACA TX FLOOD
09/05/01 CALHOUN FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1090 AT 6
MILE CREEK IS FLOODED.
0115 PM PORT LAVACA TX FLOOD
09/05/01 CALHOUN THE INTERSECTION OF HOLLOWMAN
AND MCDONALD ROADS IS FLOODED.
0115 PM PORT LAVACA TX FLOOD
09/05/01 CALHOUN FARM TO MARKET ROAD 3084 AT
AIRPORT IS FLOODED.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several streets and roads throughout the county closed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, September 2001
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