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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

November 3, 2000Brazos County, Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2000, 6:18 PM CST for Brazos County, Burleson 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, 6:18 PM CST (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2000, 10:15 PM 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, Burleson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KHGX 040019
FFWHGX
TXC041-051-040415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
618 PM CST FRI NOV 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BURLESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
  BRAZOS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST

* AT 618 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER BOTH
  COUNTIES WITH ANOTHER AREA OF PRECIPITATION MOVING IN FROM CENTRAL TEXAS.
  WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING IS ONGOING THROUGHOUT BRAZOS COUNTY. PORTIONS OF
  FM1361 AND HIGHWAY 36 IN BURLESON COUNTY ALSO HAVE HIGH WATER ON THEM. THE
  GROUND IS SATURATED AND ADDITIONAL RAINS UP TO 3 INCHES COULD OCCUR BY THE
  END OF THE PERIOD FURTHER WORSENING THE ONGOING FLOODING.

* FLOODING IS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT BOTH COUNTIES.

MOTORISTS SHOULD 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 3095 9626 3043 9618 3034 9662 3042 9682
          3056 9692

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, 2:55 PM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:55 PM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
255 PM CST FRI NOV 3 2000

WHERE WAS ALL THIS RAIN BACK IN AUGUST WHEN WE REALLY NEEDED IT???
ACTUALLY...WE WILL TAKE IT NOW. STILL RUNNING PRECIP DEFICITS ACRS
MUCH OF THE CWA. LOOKS LIKE WE WILL PUT A LTL DENT IN THAT THIS
WEEKEND.

FOR TNGT...ANOTHER IN A SERIES OF VORT MAXES SLATED TO CROSS THE
CWA. BEST VERT MOTION AND MOISTURE INDC NRN ZONES. ETA PROGS PW
VALUES NEAR 1.9" TNGT N AND W. CURR FFA ALIGNMENT LOOKS GOOD WITH
CAT POPS N/W...LKLY CTRL AND CHC COAST.

ETA DVLPS A SFC LOW ALG STNRY FNT AND EJECTS IT NE TMRW. SHD BE A
DECENT AREA OF SHRA/TSRA WITH BEST COVERAGE N. LKLY POPS N...HIGH
CHC CTRL AND CHC S. MOS/FAN POPS ACTUALLY GO UP SAT NIGHT DESPITE
LOWER PW'S AND LESS IMPRESSIVE DYNAMICS. WILL KEEP THE SAME POPS FOR
SAT VERSUS SAT NIGHT...ALTHOUGH I THINK BETTER COVERAGE AND
INTENSITY WILL BE DRG THE DAY.

STG SFC LOW OVR THE SRN PLAINS BY 60 HRS. IMPRESSIVE FNT TRAILS INTO
W TX. AVN IS QUITE A BIT FASTER THAN PREV THINKING...AND LAST NIGHTS
MRF. WOULD LIKE TO KEEP A MON/MON NIGHT FROPA GOING. NO GREAT DRYING
BEHIND THE FNT ACCORDING TO THE MRF. WILL KEEP THE COOLER CLAMMY
FCST GOING INTO MIDWEEK NEXT WEEK. A REAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FCST
COMING OUT TDA. ;-/

SEAS STILL 6 FT AT 44019...4 FT AT 42035. WILL HAVE AN SCEC TNGT FOR
AT LEAST THE OFFSHORE PTN OF THE CWF. FINAL DECISION AT ISSUANCE
TIME.

.KHGX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ALONG/NORTH OF A LINE
        FROM COLUMBUS TO CONROE TO LIVINGSTON.

        SCEC COASTAL WATERS 0-60 NM.

46/41/35

PRELIMS...
CLL TT 066/077 066/075 064 +87
IAH TT 067/079 066/077 065 655
GLS EE 072/080 072/078 071 333

END

The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 9:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Walker	4 hr
Nov 3, 11:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Trinity	3 hr
Nov 4, 2:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity and 1 more	6 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.