Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 3, 1993, 10:44 PM CST for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1993, 10:44 PM CST (04:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1993, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harris County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 508 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 8:42 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ047-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 842 PM CST SAT APR 03 1993 AT 835 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR CLEAR LAKE IN SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY AND WAS PRODUCING STREET FLOODING... INTENSE LIGHTNING ALONG WITH PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. AVOID AREAS THAT FLOOD EASILY...STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM MOVES AWAY.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 8:43 PM CST, 2 hours 1 minute before
TXZ047-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 842 PM CST SAT APR 03 1993 AT 835 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR CLEAR LAKE IN SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY AND WAS PRODUCING STREET FLOODING... INTENSE LIGHTNING ALONG WITH PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. AVOID AREAS THAT FLOOD EASILY...STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM MOVES AWAY.
Local storm report, Apr 3, 10:41 PM CST, 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 69 min |
| Apr 3, 9:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 10:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.