Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 27, 1995, 1:06 AM CST for Polk County, 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
County Polk County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 270706 FFWHOU TXC201-291-339-373-407-271000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 106 AM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... ...HARRIS COUNTY...LIBERTY COUNTY...MONTGOMERY COUNTY ...POLK COUNTY...AND SAN JACINTO COUNTY MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINSHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS HARRIS...SOUTH MONTGOMERY...SAN JACINTO ...POLK AND NORTH LIBERTY COUNTIES. THESE AREAS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED AROUND 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN MANY LOCATIONS. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICES AND LOCAL AREA SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED MANY FLOODED ROADS AND LOCAL CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS AT OR NEAR BANKFULL. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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. 42
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 10:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 2 hr |
| Jan 27, 1:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto | 114 min |
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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.