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Major Coastal Bend (Texas) Flooding
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:53 am
by cctxhurricanewatcher
What a way to put a major dent in a drought.
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
606 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2006
TXC007-355-391-409-011215-
ARANSAS-NUECES-REFUGIO-SAN PATRICIO-
606 AM CDT THU JUN 1 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 AM CDT FOR
NUECES...ARANSAS...SAN PATRICIO AND REFUGIO COUNTIES...
AT 600 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN STRETCHING FROM
PADRE ISLAND TO ARANSAS PASS TO ROCKPORT TO NORTHERN REFUGIO COUNTY.
AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR
ACROSS THIS AREA...PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.
EARLIER HEAVY RAINFALL...BETWEEN 9 AND 11 INCHES...HAS RESULTED IN
MANY FLOODED ROADWAYS ACROSS WESTERN CORPUS CHRISTI...AND MANY
ROADWAYS REMAIN CLOSED. INTERSTATE 37 FROM CORN PRODUCTS ROAD TO
MCBRIDE REMAINS FLOODED...AND TRAFFIC IS BEING DIVERTED OFF OF
INTERSTATE 37 AT TULOSA. N.P.I.D AT LEOPARD ALSO REMAINS FLOODED.
FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 44 BETWEEN AGNES AND NAVIGATION WAS ALSO
REPORTED. MANY OTHER SECONDARY ROADS ARE FLOODED ACROSS WESTERN
CORPUS CHRISTI AND TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF
CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
For the record, I live about 10 miles northwest of the Airport area that received the big rains. As of 6:30 AM I've probably had 2 inches. More is on the way.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:39 am
by Portastorm
I was thinking about ya buddy when I saw this morning that Corpus had about 10 inches of rain since midnight. Wow, y'all know how to make up a deficit quickly don't you?!
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:42 am
by cctxhurricanewatcher
Portastorm wrote:I was thinking about ya buddy when I saw this morning that Corpus had about 10 inches of rain since midnight. Wow, y'all know how to make up a deficit quickly don't you?!
Actually it was a rather small area that got the 10+ which happened to be the around the airport where NWS office is. Some areas like mine got 2 to 5. The local mets are saying we should get a really good pounding later this afternoon.
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:58 am
by cctxhurricanewatcher
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
513 AM CDT FRI JUN 2 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN JIM WELLS COUNTY IN SOUTH TEXAS
WESTERN KLEBERG COUNTY IN SOUTH TEXAS
* UNTIL 815 AM CDT
* AT 510 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING FROM RICARDO TO
WESTERN KLEBERG COUNTY TO JUST NORTH OF PREMONT.
DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED A WIDESPREAD AREA OF BETWEEN 5 AND 10
INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL
KLEBERG COUNTY...AS WELL AS BETWEEN BEN BOLT AND PREMONT IN SOUTHERN
JIM WELLS COUNTY. AN ISOLATED POCKET OF BETWEEN 15 AND 25 INCHES HAS
OCCURRED NEAR AND JUST EAST OF RICARDO. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES
WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
MANY ROADS REMAINED FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE THROUGHOUT KLEBERG
COUNTY...IN ADDITION TO SEVERAL CREEKS FLOODED. TRAVEL IS
DISCOURAGED EARLY THIS MORNING.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:10 am
by CrazyC83
That was sooooo like Allison...
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:11 am
by JonathanBelles
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:24 pm
by jasons2k
wow. well, hopefully for you CC it wasn't too bad. I was thinking of you too and hoping you got some decent rain, just not the flooding kind.
