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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

July 31, 2004Brazos County, Grimes County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2004, 12:50 AM CDT for Brazos County, Grimes 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
Jul 31, 2004, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 2004, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brazos County, TX, Grimes County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1617 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1617 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.1

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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 Jul 31, 12:25 AM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 12:25 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 12:35 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1235 AM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004

TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-311200-
AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GALVESTON-
GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA-MONTGOMERY-
POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON-WHARTON-
1235 AM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS
OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH A VERY MOIST AIRMASS
AND WEAK MID-LEVEL WINDS TO CONTINUE TO TRIGGER SLOW MOVING SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT.
AVERAGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED WITH SOME
ISOLATED TOTALS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT
AREA IS ALONG AND NORTH OF A BRENHAM TO HUNTSVILLE TO LIVINGSTON
LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 3:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXGrimes2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.