Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2001, 9:08 PM CDT for Galveston County, Harris 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
- Jun 9, 2001, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Galveston County, TX, Harris County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
830 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001
A WELCOME BREAK IN THE ACTION AT THE MOMENT. HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?
SFC LOW PRES SYSTEM NOW OVR THE GULF S OF FREEPORT. PRES FALLS NOTED
ALONG THE COAST FROM GLS EWD...WITH BEST DROPS NOTED OVR LA. IF IT
SHD BEGIN TO DEVELOP AGAIN LATE TNGT...HVY RAIN COULD BEGIN TO DRIFT
BACK INLAND. MESOETA HINTS AT REINTENSIFICATION OF PRECIP TWD
MORNING...WITH THE BEST QPF OVR THE GULF. TROPICAL SYSTEMS ALSO HAVE
A TENDENCY TO PRODUCE HEAVIER MORE CONCENTRATED RAINS LATE AT NIGHT
VERSUS THE DAY AND WE ARE IN THE FAVORED NE QUAD OF THIS SYSTEM. AM
INCLINED TO KEEP THE WATCH IN PLACE EVEN THOUGH NOT MUCH RAIN IS
FALLING AT THE MOMENT. NOTING SOME NW MOVEMENT OF ACTIVITY OVR
GALVESTON BAY.
WILL DO SOME RE-ADJUSTING TO ZFP WORDING...BUT CONT CHC OF HVY
PRECIP LATE TNGT. MID SHIFT CAN RE-EVALUATE WATCH AREA AFTER THE 00Z
MODELS ARE COMPLETE.
PNSHOU ISSUED EARLIER THIS EVENING HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THE PRECIP
AMTS OVR THE LAST 5 DAYS.
.HGX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT.
COASTAL FLOOD WATCH HIGH ISLAND TO FRE6EPORT AND THE COASTAL
SECTIONS OF GALVESTON BAY.
SCA GULF WATERS.
PRELIMS...
CLL TE 071/088 072/089 072 541
IAH TT 072/086 072/086 072 862
GLS TT 075/084 075/084 075 973The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.