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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

July 31, 1995Chambers County, Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 1995, 3:19 AM CDT for Chambers County, Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 1995, 3:19 AM CDT (08:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 1995, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Chambers County, TX, Liberty County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1447 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 31, 2:50 AM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:50 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 10:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

TXZ177-178-179-199-200-213-214-227-237-238-511-310430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
1029 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1995

...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 5 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING IN ASSOCIATION WITH TROPICAL
DEPRESSION DEAN.  ALTHOUGH DEAN IS WEAKENING...THE ATMOSPHERE OVER
SOUTHEAST TEXAS REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE.  SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT.

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS TORNADO WATCH...BRAZORIA...
FORT BEND...HARRIS...MONTGOMERY...WALKER...SAN JACINTO...LIBERTY...
GALVESTON...CHAMBERS...AND POLK COUNTIES.

THIS REPLACES THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER NEWS SOURCES FOR
FURTHER UPDATES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Chambers	56 min
Jul 30, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Chambers	56 min
Jul 30, 9:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Chambers	71 min
Jul 30, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Chambers, Liberty	59 min
Jul 31, 12:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Chambers	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Chambers, Liberty	3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.