Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 18, 1995, 7:03 AM CST for Polk County, San Jacinto County, Trinity County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1995, 7:03 AM CST (13:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1995, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 550 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 181306 FFWHOU TXC455-373-407-181600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 703 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...TRINITY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...POLK COUNTY...AND NORTHERN SAN JACINTO COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IS INDICATING VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING FROM MONTGOMERRY COUNTY ACROSS NORTHERN SAN JACINTO NORTHERN POLK AND TRINITY COUNTIES. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE PAST HOUR WAS INDICATED IN NEAR THE TOWN OF WILLIS. THESE HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST OVER THE SAME AREAS THIS MORNING PRODUCING FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL. STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF TRINITY. THIS FLOODING WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE. TRAVEL IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE AVOIDED IF AT ALL POSSIBLE THIS MORNING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR UNDERPASSES IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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 Jan 18, 3:01 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 3:01 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 3:52 AM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-511-513-181555- SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 352 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING. THERE IS ALSO A RISK OF HEAVY RAIN OVER REGION THIS MORNING ALSO. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN COMBINATION WITH A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING. A SURFACE LOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN SOUTH TEXAS AND MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. THIS SURFACE LOW WILL INCREASE LOW LEVEL WINDS FROM THE SOUTH THUS INCREASING THE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION. THE MAIN THREAT AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...HOWEVER A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE EAST OF THE SURFACE LOW AS STRONG WIND SHEAR WILL LEAD TO SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT. IN ADDITION TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER ALL BUT THE COASTAL COUNTIES. THE GROUND IS SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEAR THREE INCHES. EMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARE URGED TO CHECK THEIR PREPAREDNESS PLANS AND STAFFING LEVELS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING THIS MORNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY ALSO BE NECESSARY FOR THIS DEVELOPING EVENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 11:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Trinity | 115 min |
| Jan 18, 7:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 53 min |
| Jan 18, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Jan 18, 9:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 40 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.