Storms trained across eastern-central Refugio and northern Aransas counties from the mid-morning hours through the late afternoon. Doppler radar estimated 4 to 6 inches of rain fell across this area, which resulted in flash flooding into the evening.
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The episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.
Storms trained across eastern-central Refugio and northern Aransas counties from the mid-morning hours through the late afternoon. Doppler radar estimated 4 to 6 inches of rain fell across this area, which resulted in flash flooding into the evening. 5.96 inches was measured at a RAWS site at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge.
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 Mar 6, 9:40 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 940 AM CST SUN MAR 6 2005 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY OVER THE NE CWA... .DISCUSSION...SENT AN UPDATE TO THE ZFP A FEW MINUTES AGO TO INCREASE POPS AND QPF OVER THE ECENT AND NE CWA. WENT CATEGORICAL OVER THE NE...AND 70% ECENT...WHICH INCLUDES THE CRP AREA. LATEST 88D LOOP SHOWING PRETTY WIDESPREAD PRECIP WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE EAST AND NE CWA. DOPPLER ESTIMATES SHOW REFUGIO...BEE AND GOLIAD COUNTIES HAVE BEEN HARDEST HIT PRECIP-WISE...WITH GENERALLY 1-2 INCHES SINCE MIDNIGHT. ISOLATED SPOTS IN REFUGIO HAVE RECEIVED 2-4 INCHES...BUT NO REPORTS OF ANY FLOODING AT THIS TIME. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE NE CWA FOR FLOODING THREAT. MORNING SOUNDING INDICATED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF 0-3KM HELICITY NEAR 500 M2/S2. HOWEVER...LATEST VWP SHOWING THAT LOW LEVEL VEERING IS DECREASING WITH SOUTHERLY FLOW 0-6KM. THUS...THREAT FOR ROTATION OR POSSIBLE TORS SEEMS TO BE DIMINISHING. LOOKING AT THE WV LOOP...CAN SEE THAT BACK EDGE OF DEEP MOISTURE IS MOVING AT A GOOD CLIP TO THE EAST. TIMING THIS CURRENT MOTION PLACES THE BACK EDGE TO THE COAST BY AROUND NOON...THE OFFSHORE BY 18-20Z. MODELS ALSO SEEM TO MIMIC THIS TIMING...WHICH WOULD INDICATE THAT THE BEST CHANCES FOR PRECIP WILL BE THROUGH THE MORNING...DECREASING IN THE AFTERNOON. CURRENT FORECAST HAS THAT WORDING...BUT WILL LIKELY STILL NEED TO UPDATE AGAIN BY NOON OR SO TO CLEAN UP MORNING WORDING. && AVIATION...GENERALLY MVRF WITH ISOLD IFR AREAS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING. EXPECT CONDITIONS TO GRADUALLY IMPROVE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY CLIMBING INTO VFR RANGE. && .MARINE...HAVING TROUBLE GETTING NEAR SHORE/TCOON OBS THIS MORNING. BUOYS AND COASTAL OBS INDICATING SE WINDS OF 10 TO 15 KTS...WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS OFFSHORE AND WITH ANY SHOWERS. HAVE INCREASED OFFSHORE WINDS A TAD AND MENTIONED HIGHER GUST WITH SHOWERS FOR BAYS AND NEAR SHORE. && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && RFM/33
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
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Low lying areas in Refugio were flooded. Portions of the city park in Refugio were closed due to flooding. Water flowing over U.S. 77 north and south of Refugio resulted in several accidents. Highway 35 and FM 774 intersection, south of Tivoli, was closed due to flooding. Water covered some roads in Woodsboro.
Flooding occurred along Highway 35, north of Lamar, in northern Aransas county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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