Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2000, 12:00 AM CST for Brazos County, Grimes County, Madison County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 3, 2000, 12:00 AM CST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2000, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Brazos County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Madison County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KHGX 030600
FFWHGX
TXC041-185-313-031000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1200 AM CST FRI NOV 3 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
NORTHERN GRIMES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
BRAZOS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
* UNTIL 400 AM CST
* AT MIDNIGHT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL CONTINUING ALONG AND
NORTH OF A COLLEGE STATION TO SINGLETON TO MADISONVILLE LINE. RADAR
ESTIMATES UP TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN KURTEN AND NORTH
ZULCH IN THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. ADDITIONAL RAIN EXTENDING INTO CENTRAL
TEXAS WILL MOVE EASTWARD AND OVER THE SAME AREAS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
RADAR TRENDS SHOW THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE WEAKENING.
HOWEVER...AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 400 AM
CST.
AREAS IN AND NEAR BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION CONTINUE TO REPORT STREET
FLOODING. WATER HAS BEEN UP TO 2 TO 3 FEET DEEP AT SOME LOCATIONS DURING
THE EVENING.
* FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE BUT SLOWLY SUBSIDE IN OR NEAR...
BRYAN...COLLEGE STATION...MADISONVILLE...SINGLETON...BEDIAS...NORTH
ZULCH...MIDWAY.
DO NOT CROSS ANY LOCATION WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE...OR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3076 9657 3048 9631 3058 9586 3087 9585
3094 9568 3109 9570 3109 9609What 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 Nov 2, 9:14 PM CST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 2, 9:14 PM CST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
914 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000
WILL GET A ZONE UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. BASED ON CURRENT RADAR AND
SATELLITE TRENDS...HAVE GONE AHEAD AND ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
FOR OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH SOME SLIGHT CLOUD TOP WARMING IS
EVIDENT ON MOST RECENT INFRARED SATELLITE PICTURES...TRAINING RAINS
ARE BECOMING ORIENTED NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS OUR NORTHERN
COUNTIES. PORTIONS OF THESE COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY EXTREME NORTHERN
BURLESON AND NORTHERN BRAZOS COUNTIES...HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SOME
HEAVY RAINS THIS EVENING...AND A FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL GROW OVER
THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS HILL COUNTRY STORMS SLOWLY EDGE TOWARD OUR
AREA. THIS FLASH FLOOD WATCH CORRELATES WELL WITH THIS EVENINGS
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OUTLOOK FROM HPC.
.KHGX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT TXZ163-164-176-177-195>198.
SCEC COASTAL WATERS 20-60 NM.
42/47/DO
PRELIMS...
CLL TT 066/075 063/070 060 888
IAH WW 070/079 064/074 062 667
GLS WW 074/080 073/079 070 556The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 1:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Walker | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 3:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 2 hr |
| Nov 3, 6:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 9:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 1:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 3:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos | 2 hr |
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.