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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 22, 1998, 4:27 AM CST for Chambers 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
- Jan 22, 1998, 4:27 AM CST (10:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1998, 7:15 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
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 22, 2:38 AM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 2:38 AM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 6:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda, Wharton | 68 min |
| Jan 21, 6:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Grimes, Walker | 2 hr |
| Jan 21, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Walker | 61 min |
| Jan 21, 6:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 3 hr |
| Jan 21, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 64 min |
| Jan 21, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 61 min |
| Jan 21, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 65 min |
| Jan 21, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 65 min |
| Jan 21, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston, Harris | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 9:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers | 3 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 35 min |
| Jan 21, 9:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 3 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 33 min |
| Jan 21, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers | 64 min |
| Jan 21, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 64 min |
| Jan 21, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 67 min |
| Jan 22, 12:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 4 hr |
| Jan 22, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson | 55 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.