Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1986, 3:32 PM CDT for Polk County, San Jacinto County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1986, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1986, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAAOO KHOU 262032
FFWHOU
TXC373-407-270030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
332 PM CDT THU JUN 26 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN TEXAS
..POLK..SAN JACINTO
A CLUSTER OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST OF HUNTSVILLE
ACROSS SHEPHERD AND GOODRICH TO CAMP RUBY. ONE FOOT OF WATER WAS
REPORTED ON I59 NEAR SHEPHERD AND TWO FEET AT GOODRICH. I59 IS
STILL PASSABLE BUT BARELY. POLK COUNTY SHERIFF ALSO REPORTED FM 1988
WAS CLOSED AT SEVEREAL PLACES.
THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING EAST AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF MORE THAN
TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECETD FROM THESE STORMS.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES, DIPS, OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM, EVEN A SMALL ONE,
ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES, DIPS, OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM, EVEN A SMALL ONE,
ON FOOT.
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS, STRONG WINDS, FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, AND
POSSIBLE HAIL ARE ALL LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. WITH GROUNDS ALREADY
SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS lRAINS, ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE CREEKS
AND STREAMS TO RAPIDLY OVERFLOW.
STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR MORE
INFORMATION ON THIS DANGEROUS FLOOD EVENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 60 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.