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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 7, 2001Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2001, 4:19 AM CDT for Liberty 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
Jun 7, 2001, 4:19 AM CDT (09:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2001, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Liberty County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1485 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KHGX 070923
FFWHOU
TXC291-071315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
419 AM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 815 AM CDT

* AT 414 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL        
  WITH ESTIMATES OF 4 TO 9 INCHES OVER THE SOUTHEAST PORTION 
  OF THE COUNTY. 

* FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN OR NEAR...
  DEVERS...COTTONWOOD...AMES...DAISETTA...DAYTON...LIBERTY

DO NOT CROSS ANY LOCATION WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD

USE EXTRA CAUTION AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DEPTH
AND SPEED OF FLASH FLOOD WATERS.

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 3031 9470 3027 9472 3025 9478 3009 9501
          3004 9501 2999 9498 2990 9496 2990 9446
          3012 9446 3012 9461 3022 9465 3031 9466

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 1:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers, Liberty3 hr
Jun 7, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXHouston3 hr
Jun 7, 5:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXFort Bend, Harris3 hr
Jun 7, 7:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXHouston, Trinity, Walker4 hr
Jun 7, 7:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXFort Bend, Harris4 hr
Jun 7, 8:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXBrazoria, Galveston3 hr
Jun 7, 11:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXHouston, Trinity, Walker3 hr
Jun 7, 12:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXBrazoria2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.