Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT for Colorado County, Jackson County, Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1996, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colorado County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:34 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1738 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 260932 FFWHOU TXC089-481-239-261230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 430 AM CDT WED JUN 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...COLORADO COUNTY...WESTERN WHARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 425 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WERE BETWEEN EL CAMPO... COLUMBUS...AND EDNA. RAINFALL OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED...AND FLASH FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS ARE IMMIMENT AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THESE AREAS. 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 T,O 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 Jun 26, 2:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 238 AM CDT WED JUN 26 1996 BOTH THE ETA AND NGM ARE CONSITENT IN KEEPING GOOD LYR RH VALUES (>70 PERCENT) OVR SETX THRU THE AM HRS IN THE 1ST PD. THEN AS THE RDG BLDS IN OVR THE CST THE BEST SYNOPTIC LIFT AND MOISTURE AREAS MOV INLAND AND AWAY FM THE CST. LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ROUND OF RW/TRW IN STORE FOR THE CST THIS AM. THEN THRU THE AFT TSTMS AND SHOWERS SHUD PUSH INLAND AS PER THE 94Q FCST. THE 98Q MAY BE JUST A BIT OVERDONE FOR THE FCST AREA...BUT WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE STREAMING IN OVR SETX CANNOT RULE OUT ALL PRECIP EVEN WITH THE FCST SUBSIDENCE. THUS CHC POPS ARE IN ORDER PAST THE 2ND PD. WL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE RAINFALL...ESPCIALLY EARLY TODAY ALONG THE COASTAL COUNTIES. ALTHO THE FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED ALONG THE CST...THIS MAY BE OF SOME CONCERN EARLY. TEMPS SHUD BE BLO THE FWC OVR THE WELL INLAND SXNS BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED CLD COVER AND RAIN EXPECTED THERE. ...40... PRELIMS... CLL 89/76 6/2 IAH 88/74 4/2 GLS 85/78 4/2
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 4:08 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
TXZ176-195>198-210>212-226-227-235>237-511-513-271800- HEAVY RAINFALL OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 408 AM CDT WED JUN 26 1996 THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN EXISTS ACROSS A PORTION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM FREEPORT TO RICHMOND TO MADISONVILLE. CITIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE OUTLOOK AREA ARE BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION...BRENHAM...COLUMBUS...WHARTON...AND BAY CITY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A DEEP TROPICAL LAYER OF MOISTURE ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN PLACE OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF NEAR 1 INCH PER HOUR WILL BE COMMON WITH SOME OF THE HEAVIER SHOWERS. SOME AREAS MAY RECEIVE IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES BY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE SATURATED GROUND FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL OF THE PAST FEW DAYS...FLASH FLOODING IS A POSSIBILITY AND THE SITUATION SHOULD BE MONITORED CLOSELY. PONDING OF WATER MAY OCCUR ON ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THROUGH SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR VEHICLE TO CROSS SAFELY. MARINE INTERESTS ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST NEAR MATAGORDA BAY SHOULD ANTICIPATE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS REDUCING THE VISIBILITY TO BELOW 1 MILE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED IN THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO KEEP UPDATED ON THE WEATHER SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND REMAIN ALERT IF ACTIVATION BECOMES NECESSARY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR STATEMENTS.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.