Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 1998, 7:14 PM CDT for Austin County, Colorado 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
- Sep 15, 1998, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1998, 10:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Austin County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 15, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 10:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Wharton | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 9:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 59 min |
| Sep 16, 6:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson | 114 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.