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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

January 27, 19954 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 27, 1995, 1:06 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 27, 1995, 1:06 AM CST (07:06 UTC)
Expired
Jan 27, 1995, 3:00 AM CST
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harris County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 00:00Z on 1995-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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 00:00Z on 1995-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 288 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
449 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 Jan 26, 8:50 PM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 8:50 PM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
850 PM CST THU JAN 26 1995

HAVE BEEN MONITORING ONGOING TRAINING OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
PORTIONS OF FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA THIS EVENING.  HAVE RECEIVED NUMEROUS
REPORTS OF IMPASSABLE ROADS IN THESE COUNTIES (FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN
EFFECT - SEE FFWHOU).  ALSO...RAINFALL HAS RESULTED IN RISING CREEKS N OF THE
HOUSTON AREA.  WILL CONTINUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SAME COUNTIES THROUGH
TONIGHT.

ONLY ADJUSTMENTS MADE TO FORECAST WAS TO UP OVERNIGHT TEMPS A FEW DEGREES AS
50S SEEM UNLIKELY.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 10:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXHarris, Liberty2 hr
Jan 27, 1:06 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXPolk114 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.