Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2001, 11:27 AM CDT for Jackson County, Matagorda County, Wharton 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2001, 11:27 AM CDT (16:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Jackson County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:27 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 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 1777 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KHGX 311628 FFWHOU TXC239-321-481-311930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON-GALVESTON TX 1127 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RE-ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS WHARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS MATAGORDA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 1130 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED POCKETS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE WARNING AREA. RAINFALL RATES WILL BE NEAR 2 INCHES AN HOUR IN THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY. THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL AGGRAVATE ONGOING FLOODING OVER THE COUNTIES. * PORTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING ROADWAYS WERE REPORTED CLOSED AT THIS TIME. IN JACKSON COUNTY...COUNTY ROADS 283...125...112 AND 127. IN WHARTON COUNTY...FM 1301 AT THE MATAGORDA COUNTY LINE... COUNTY ROAD 215 AT WEST BERNARD CREEK...AND 164 AT TEAGUE. MANY OTHER ROADS HAD HIGH WATER ON THEM...BUT WERE STILL PASSABLE. ADDITIONAL ROAD CLOSURES ARE POSSIBLE DUE TO HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS OR INTO FLOOD WATERS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT FOR YOU TO CROSS SAFELY. 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 2951 9613 2875 9564 2855 9653 2908 9684
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 Aug 31, 9:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 9:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
945 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
MCS OVER SW THIRD OF CWFA THIS MORNING PRODUCING ISOLATED 2 INCH
PER HOUR RATES OVER WHARTON AND EXTREME SW FORT BEND COUNTIES.
SATELLITE IR LOOP INDICATE CLOUD TOP WARMING BY NEARLY 10 DEG C LAST
2 HOURS FROM THIS CLUSTER AND HOPEFULLY THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE.
HOWEVER...ANALYZED MORNING DATA SHOWS VERY HIGH PWATS (NEAR 2.5
INCHES AT KLCH) OVER REGION...DIFLUENCE AT UPPER LEVELS AND 30 KT
LLJET. WILL NOT CHANGE PREVIOUS PACKAGE SINCE IT IS ON TRACK.
37/46/48
.HGX...FFA ALL CWA TODAY.
SCA 20 TO 60 NM HIGH ISLAND TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL.
CLL...080/073 083/073 088 987
IAH...079/074 080/074 086 +87
GLS...083/079 083/079 086 +87The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 25 min |
| Aug 30, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 43 min |
| Aug 30, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 41 min |
| Aug 30, 8:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 38 min |
| Aug 30, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 8:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Colorado, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 9:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 92 min |
| Aug 31, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Jackson, Wharton | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Jackson, Wharton | 3 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.