Heavy tropical rainfall across eastern Jim Wells county and western Bee county resulted in flash flooding.
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Heavy tropical rainfall across eastern Jim Wells county and western Bee county resulted in flash flooding.
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 Jul 24, 12:04 AM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 104 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2007 .UPDATE...OUTFLOW BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS GENERATED A FLARE UP OF CONVECTION SOUTH OF BEEVILLE. RAISED POPS FOR CURRENT ACTIVITY. THE STORMS WILL SLOWLY MOVE TO THE SOUTH ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAINS. INCREASED POPS TO LOW END CHANCE OUT INTO THE WESTERN RIO GRANDE PLAINS IN CASE ADDITIONAL CONVECTION FORMS ALONG SOUTHWEST MOVING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1115 PM CDT MON JUL 23 2007/ UPDATE...HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND ALSO TO LOWER POPS ACROSS THE CWA WITH SHWRS AND TSTMS ON THE DECREASE AND ALSO WITH UPSTREAM CONVECTION DIMINISHING AS WELL. IR IMAGERY SHOWS CLOUD TOPS WARMING WITH RADAR SHOWING CONVECTION CONFINED TO COASTAL PLAINS. ISOLD TO SCATTERED SHOWER ACTIVITY MAY MOVE INTO THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AFTER MIDNIGHT. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 729 PM CDT MON JUL 23 2007/ UPDATE...SATELLITE IMAGERY HAS SHOWN A ROBUST AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ORIENTED IN A NORTH AND SOUTH MANNER FROM THE RED RIVER AREA THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. 18Z NAM DEPICTS THE PRECIPITATION FIELD AND SHORT WAVE DISTURBANCE VERY WELL. WITH THIS INITIALIZATION VERY WELL HANDLED HAVE GONE WITH NAM DEPICTION FOR THIS EVENING. THIS DEPICTION SHOWS A POTENTIAL TRAINING TYPE OF SITUATION ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES OF THE CWA BY MID TO LATE EVENING WITH VORT LOBE SWINGING DOWN FROM CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS POTENTIAL TRAINING...ANTECEDENT SOIL CONDITIONS...HAS PROMPTED TO UPDATE THE FORECAST WITH A STRATIFICATION OF POPS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH WITH HIGHER POPS TO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CWA WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCHES POSTED FOR THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES. AVIATION...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD THIS EVENING MAINLY ACROSS THE NRN CWA...AS AN EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE IN NLY FLOW ALOFT MOVES S TO SW AND USHERS IN ONGOING CONVECTION CURRENTLY OVR CENTRAL TX. ALSO...ISOL CONVECTION HAS DVLPD ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NE CWA NEAR THE COAST ALONG OUTFLOW BDRIES/SEABREEZE BDRY AND ACROSS THE WRN CWA DUE TO REACHING CONVECTIVE TEMPS. THESE TSRAS ARE GENERALLY SHORT-LIVED PULSE TYPES WHILE THE STORMS MOVG IN FROM CENTRAL TX ARE ASSOC WITH THE S/WV ARE LONGER-LIVED/TRAINERS THAT ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE CWA LATER INTO THE EVENING. THEREFORE...HAVE INCLUDED MENTION OF TSRAS WITH TEMPO IFR CONDITIONS THROUGH 06Z TONIGHT. THEN BRIEF PATCHY FOG TOWARD MORNING FOLLOWED BY SCT TSRAS ONCE AGAIN...MAINLY E EARLY SHIFTING W THRU THE AFTERNOON. && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && TMT/89...SHORT TERM MG/88...LONG TERM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 921 PM CDT MON JUL 23 2007 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-241030- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 921 PM CDT MON JUL 23 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED NORTH OF A LINE FROM ENCINAL THROUGH GEORGE WEST TO VICTORIA. SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO EXIST NORTH OF THIS LINE. ANY SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF AND FLOODING. INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE ANTICIPATED TO PRODUCE RAINFALL FROM A HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH THIS EVENING WITH LOCALIZED TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WITH THE MORE SLOWER MOVING AND EFFICIENT RAIN PRODUCING STORMS. SOUTH OF THIS ENCINAL TO GEORGE WEST TO VICTORIA LINE...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED THIS EVENING. THIS THUNDERSTORM AND SHOWER ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH IN AREAL COVERAGE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAINS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER WEST MOVING UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS LATE IN THE WEEK. THIS LOW WILL PROVIDE INCREASING CHANCES FOR STORMS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL DUE A POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING...ESPECIALLY FOR THE INLAND COASTAL PLAINS AND RIO GRANDE AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS MAY BE NECESSARY FOR FLASH FLOOD REPORTS...PARTICULARLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ENCINAL TO GEORGE WEST TO VICTORIA. SCC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 809 PM CDT MON JUL 23 2007 TXZ231-232-240245- BEE-LIVE OAK- 809 PM CDT MON JUL 23 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING BEE AND LIVE OAK COUNTIES... AT 802 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RAY POINT...OR 10 MILES EAST OF THREE RIVERS...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TE
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:00 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell late on the 23rd and during the early morning hours of the 24th across rural, western Bee county. Several Farm to Market roads were flooded and closed, including F.M. 796, F.M. 888 and F.M. 797.|
Thunderstorms trained across eastern Jim Wells county, dumping 3 to 6 inches of rain over saturated ground. Highway 44 was closed northeast of Alice and west of Agua Dulce, due to both east and west bound lanes flooded with several feet of water in spots.|
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