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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

August 1, 1989Brazoria County, Harris County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 1989, 11:02 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1989, 11:02 AM CDT (16:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1989, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brazoria County, TX, Harris 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1989-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 563 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1989-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
563 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 8:50 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXGalveston70 min
Aug 1, 10:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers, Galveston3 hr
Aug 1, 1:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXFort Bend3 hr
Aug 1, 1:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXGalveston4 hr

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.