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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 30, 1995Galveston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 1995, 10:04 AM CDT for Galveston County, Texas. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 1995, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1995, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Galveston County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1718 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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.

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 30, 9:24 AM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 9:24 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 5:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	119 min
May 30, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris	49 min
May 30, 5:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty	33 min
May 30, 5:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Galveston	2 hr
May 30, 6:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Wharton	60 min
May 30, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Wharton	60 min
May 30, 6:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend	2 hr
May 30, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris	65 min
May 30, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Matagorda	67 min
May 30, 7:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	2 hr
May 30, 7:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Chambers	67 min
May 30, 7:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Galveston	2 hr
May 30, 8:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Chambers	37 min
May 30, 9:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1995 Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.