Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Issued

Aug 30, 2001, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)

Expired

Aug 31, 2001, 4:45 AM CDT

In force

6 hr

Issued by

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Jackson County, TX, Wharton County, TX

The Houston radar (KHGX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS54 KHGX 310353
FFWHOU
TXC239-481-310945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1055 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
  WHARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 AM CDT

* AT 950 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
  OVER JACKSON AND WHARTON COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES 5 TO 6 INCHES
  HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF JACKSON COUNTY...
  AND IN THE EXTREME EASTERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF WHARTON COUNTY.

* FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN OR NEAR...
  MORALES...CORDELE...LOUISE...EL CAMPO...RURAL LOCATIONS EAST
  OF WHARTON.

SMALL CREEKS...STREAMS...BAYOUS..AND FARM-TO-MARKET OR OTHER 
SECONDARY ROADS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. 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 2963 9617 2926 9591 2879 9665 2909 9694
          2936 9642

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 30, 8:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
852 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001

FORECAST PROBLEM OF THE NIGHT CONTINUES TO BE EXTENT AND AMOUNT OF
RAINFALL.  00Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED A SURFACE TROUGH ALONG AND
JUST OFFSHORE OF THE UPPER TEXAS COAST.  00Z SOUNDINGS SHOW PW/S 2.1
TO 2.5 INCHES...850 MB DEWPOINTS OF 16 TO 18 CELSIUS...AND 700 MB
DEWPOINTS OF 4 TO 7 CELSIUS.  WATER VAPOR INDICATED A SHORTWAVE
TROUGH MOVING IN FROM THE WEST WHILE THE UPPER CHARTS AT 00Z SHOWED
GOOD DIFFLUENCE OVER THE AREA.  IR AND RADAR SHOWED THAT
REDEVELOPMENT WAS OCCURRING RIGHT OVER SE TX.  THE 00Z SOUNDINGS ALSO
INDICATE A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.  WILL MENTION A CHANCE OF SEVERE
STORMS IN THE COASTAL COUNTIES WHERE THE GREATEST THREAT APPEARS TO
BE.

THE RAINFALL SHOULD CONTINUE AND WILL KEEP THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN
EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND EXTEND IT INTO FRIDAY.  THE THINKING HERE IS
THAT THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THIRD.

PL-40
31

.HGX...FFA ALL CWA TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.
       SCEC 00 TO 20 NM HIGH ISLAND TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL.

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

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.