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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2000, 1:25 PM CST for Brazos 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
- Nov 3, 2000, 1:25 PM CST (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brazos County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KHGX 031932 COR FFWHOU TXC041-032100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 125 PM CST FRI NOV 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BRAZOS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 125 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN BEGINNING TO MOVE BACK INTO BRAZOS COUNTY FROM THE SOUTH AND WEST. ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 400 PM. A NUMBER OF ROADS ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING HIGH WATER. RECEDING FLOOD WATERS WILL BEGIN TO RISE AGAIN IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN. 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. $$ ...CORRECTION ISSUED FOR RADAR OBSERVATION TIME...
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 Nov 3, 9:35 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 9:35 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
935 AM CST FRI NOV 3 2000
LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS STNRY FNT JUST N OF OUR CWA WITH CDFNT SE
OK TO W TX. THESE TWO SFC FEATURES EXPECTED TO MERGE AND CREATE
QUITE WIDESPREAD HVY PRECIP N AND W OF THE CWA. SEE LATEST QPFERD.
AIRMASS BEHIND SECOND FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION EARLY NEXT
WEEK. PRETTY DECENT COOL DOWN EXPECTED BY TUESDAY.
MORNING MODEL RUNS COMING IN JUST FINE. LATEST MESOETA PICKING UP ON
CURR COVERAGE WELL SHOWING THE BEST ACTIVITY OVR SW ZONES. THIS AREA
ADVECTS N AND E DRG THE DAY. SHD SEE SOME REFORMATION LATER DUE TO
DESTABLIZATION AND 65-70 DWPTS OVR AREA...AND PW VALUES 1.5-1.7".
GIVEN CURR COVERAGE AND MORE EXPECTED...WILL UP POPS A BIT COASTAL
ZONES. OTRW NUMBERS LOOK OK.
NRN AND WRN ZONES SHD CONT TO BE WHERE BEST PRECIP FOCUSES NEXT 24
HRS. CONT FFA.
.KHGX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU TONIGHT ALONG/NORTH OF A
LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO CONROE TO LIVINGSTON.
SCEC COASTAL WATERS 20-60 NM.
46/41/43/35
PRELIMS...
CLL TR 074/063 072/060 074 +88
IAH TR 079/067 077/063 077 657
GLS WR 080/073 077/070 076 547In the hours before
Local storm report, Nov 3, 7:27 AM CST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
727 AM CST FRI NOV 3 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 AM 7 SE MADISONVILLE TX FLASH FLOOD
11/03/00 MADISON LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
HIGH WATER AT BEDIAS CREEK
ON THE MADISON/GRIMES
COUNTY LINE.
1240 AM MADISONVILLE TX FLASH FLOOD
11/03/00 MADISON LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
FM-978 CLOSED TO SCHOOL
ROAD AT TX-90.
0345 AM 6 S TRINITY TX FLASH FLOOD
11/03/00 TRINITY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
ONE LANE OF TX-19 ON THE
TRINITY RIVER BRIDGE UNDER
WATER.
0410 AM KURTEN TX FLASH FLOOD
11/03/00 BRAZOS LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
SAN CREEK ROAD NORTH OF
TX-21 WASHED OUT JUST
OUTSIDE OF KURTEN.
1245 AM 7 W HUNTSVILLE TX FLASH FLOOD
11/03/00 WALKER LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
WATER COVERING THE ROAD ON
TX-30 NEAR FM-2550.
0110 AM 10 W HUNTSVILLE TX FLASH FLOOD
11/03/00 WALKER PUBLIC REPORTED FM-1696
FLOODED IN SPOTS WEST OF
I-45.
0600 AM EAST BRYmAN TX FLASH FLOOD
11/03/00 BRAZOS LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
SECONDARY ROADS CLOSED
BETWEEN BRYAN AND KURTEN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 12:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 4 hr |
| 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, 3:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos | 2 hr |
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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.