Additional rainfall over the Victoria Crossroads was not enough to alleviate the drought conditions over this area during the month.
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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 episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.
Additional rainfall over the Victoria Crossroads was not enough to alleviate the drought conditions over this area during the month.
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 Oct 31, 11:43 PM CST, 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1243 AM CDT SAT NOV 1 2014
.DISCUSSION...SEE AVIATION SECTION FOR 06Z TAFS.
&&
.AVIATION...CLEAR SKIES/VFR CONDITIONS WILL EXIST ACROSS SOUTH
TEXAS THROUGH 16Z. LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL VEER TO EASTERLY FROM
16-18Z WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO
DRIFTING WEST INTO THE COASTAL PLAINS. SCATTERED CUMULUS WILL
DEVELOP AROUND 3000-3500 FEET. GFS/NAM MODELS INDICATE MOISTURE
MAY INCREASE ENOUGH TO PROVIDE BROKEN CLOUD DECK AROUND 6 KFT
NEAR INVERSION FOR THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND. ECMWF MODEL DOES
NOT SHOW QUITE AS MUCH MOISTURE...SO ONLY INDICATED SCATTERED
LAYER AT 6 KFT FOR NOW. VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH THE PERIOD.
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 950 PM CDT FRI OCT 31 2014/
DISCUSSION...DRY AIR CONTINUES TO FILTER INTO THE REGION
TONIGHT BEHIND THE COLD FRONT FROM THIS MORNING...WITH PWAT
VALUES DOWN TO NEAR A HALF INCH WITH THIS EVENING/S SOUNDING.
EXPECT A MUCH COOLER NIGHT TONIGHT THAN PREVIOUS DAYS...WITH
TEMPERATURES SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE (LOWS UPPER 40S TO LOW
50S). MADE MINOR TWEAKS TO FORECAST HOURLY GRIDS BASED ON CURRENT
OBS. ALSO...REMOVED MENTION OF SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS ACROSS
WESTERN ZONES...WHERE DRY AIR AND SUBSIDENT CONDITIONS ARE ALREADY
IN PLACE AS UPPER LVL RIDGE CONTINUES BUILDING IN FROM THE WEST.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
CORPUS CHRISTI 58 78 67 82 72 / 10 10 10 10 10
VICTORIA 49 78 62 85 70 / 10 10 10 10 10
LAREDO 58 81 67 85 69 / 10 10 10 10 10
ALICE 54 79 64 84 70 / 10 10 10 10 10
ROCKPORT 60 79 69 83 74 / 10 10 10 10 10
COTULLA 54 79 63 83 68 / 10 10 10 10 10
KINGSVILLE 54 80 66 83 72 / 10 10 10 10 10
NAVY CORPUS 60 79 69 82 73 / 10 10 10 10 10
&&
.CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
GM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT
ARANSAS OUT 20 NM...COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO
MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM...WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY
TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM...WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS
TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM.
&&
TMT/89...AVIATIONHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 451 AM CDT FRI OCT 31 2014 TXZ229>234-239>247-010000- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 451 AM CDT FRI OCT 31 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER THE BRUSH COUNTRY AND COASTAL BEND EARLY THIS MORNING. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES AND OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...AS A SLOW-MOVING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES TOWARD TEXAS. AT THIS TIME...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AS INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION WILL BE MARGINAL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-010000- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT O'CONNOR- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 451 AM CDT FRI OCT 31 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING MAINLY SOUTH OF PORT ARANSAS. NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE BEHIND A COLD FRONT BY TONIGHT. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE GULF WATERS OFF THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...AS A SLOW-MOVING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES TOWARD TEXAS. AT THIS TIME...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AS INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION WILL BE MARGINAL. TMT/PZ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought occurred over the northeast portion of the county.
Severe drought occurred over the northern portion of the county.
Severe drought occurred over the northern portion of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 2014
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: 548271, 548272, 548273.