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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 20, 2006Matagorda County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2006, 7:55 AM CDT for Matagorda 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2006, 7:55 AM CDT (12:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2006, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Matagorda County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1423 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 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
1423 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.2
Supercell composite
-1.5

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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 Jun 20, 5:12 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 5:12 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
512 AM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006

.DISCUSSION...
QUITE A BIT TO LOOK OVER THIS MORNING SO RUNNING BEHIND WITH THIS
DISCUSSION. MID-LEVEL CIRCULATION LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HVY
RAINS PROGGED TO MOVE OFF TO THE WEST/WEAKEN THESE NEXT COUPLE OF
DAYS. IN THE MEANTIME...THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL HVY RAINS REMAIN
HIGH AS THE CORE SLOWLY SHIFTS WWD. HAVE REDRAWN/REISSUED THE FFA
TO DROP A COUPLE COUNTIES EAST...THEN PICKING UP SOME OVER THE W.
SOME HEATING LATER TODAY COULD GENERATE ISOLATED STRONG TSRA THIS
AFTN AS THE AIRMASS OVER SE TX REMAINS QUITE MOIST/UNSTABLE/UNCAP-
PED. HOWEVER...CONFIDENCE IS LOW AS CLOUDS COULD STICK AROUND AND
/OR MESO TYPE INFLUENCES PREVAIL IN THE WAKE OF THIS MORNINGS ACT-
IVITY. BEYOND TODAY WILL LIKELY KEEP LOWISH CHC POPS IN FOR WEDS/
THURS AS LINGERING MOISTURE HELPS ISOLATED PCPN DEVELOP ALONG THE
SEABREEZE. WE SHOULD SEE A BRIEF RESPITE FROM POPS BY FRI AS HIGH
PRESSURE SETTLES ALOFT. BUT THE BRIEF RESPITE COULD ALSO BE BRIEF
AS MODELS INCREASE POPS OVER THE WEEKEND IN RESPONSE TO A SEVERAL
FEATURES/CHANGES IN THE PATTERN. RIDGE PROGGED TO CONTINUE BUILD-
ING WEST AS A BROAD WEAKNESS DEVELOPS OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF
COAST REGION. A SHEAR AXIS THEN FORMS NW OF THE CWFA ON SAT WHICH
SLOWLY SINKS SE TO THE COASTLINE AROUND SUN NIGHT. FROM THE OTHER
DIRECTION AN ELY WAVE IS FORECAST TO MOVE WWD ACROSS THE NRN GULF
TOWARD US. THIS GENERAL TROFFINESS COULD ALSO HELP PUSH A FRONT
INTO THE AREA THROUGH THE BACKDOOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. NOT HOLDING A
WHOLE LOT OF FAITH IN THIS PART OF THE EXTENDED GUIDANCE ATTM. 41

&&

.AVIATION...
THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST DAY OF THE CORE RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
MID/UPPER LOW ASSUMING MODELS VERIFY BY TAKING IT WSW OF SE TX TODAY
& TONIGHT. BELIEVE THE PERIOD BETWEEN NOW AND NOON SHOULD BE THE
BUSIEST OF THE DAY WX-WISE. HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL IS STILL A PRETTY
GOOD BET. AM ALSO A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT IF WE GET A FEW BREAKS OF
SUN LATE THIS AFTERNOON WE COULD GET A FEW STRONG CELLS TO POP. LOW
CONFIDENCE SO WONT INCLUDE IN THE TAFS...BUT ID WATCH ALONG & EAST
OF I-45.  ANTICIPATE A RETURN TO THE MORE TYPICAL AFTN/EVNG PRECIP
WED AND BEYOND.  47
&&

.MARINE...
OBVIOUSLY MAIN FCST ISSUE IS NUMEROUS TSTMS IN THE NEARSHORE WATERS
AND BAYS TODAY. MESO BOUNDARY NEAR AND JUST OFF THE COAST WILL LEAD
TO EASTERLY WINDS EARLY THIS MORNING THERE. ASSUMING THIS BOUNDARY
WILL GRADUALLY WASH OUT THIS AFTERNOON LEADING TO A RETURN SE WINDS.
TYPICAL SUMMER DIURNAL ONSHORE WIND PATTERN SHOULD PERSIST INTO
FRIDAY BEFORE THE GRADIENT REALLY WEAKENS THIS WEEKEND.  47
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
COLLEGE STATION (CLL)      88  73  91  73  93 /  70  20  20  20  20
HOUSTON (IAH)              87  75  90  75  92 /  70  20  30  30  30
GALVESTON (GLS)            85  78  86  78  88 /  70  20  30  30  30

&&

.HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 PM TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: AUSTIN...
     BRAZORIA...CHAMBERS...COLORADO...FORT BEND...GALVESTON...
     HARRIS...JACKSON...LIBERTY...MATAGORDA...MONTGOMERY...BRAZOS...
     BURLESON...GRIMES...WASHINGTON...WALLER...AND WHARTON.

     FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 5 AM TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: POLK...
     AND SAN JACINTO.

GM...SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION UNTIL 5 AM TUESDAY FOR THE
     FOLLOWING ZONES: WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP
     CHANNEL 20 NM TO 60 NM...WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE
     MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM...WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND
     TO FREEPORT 20 TO 60 NM...AND WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO
     FREEPORT OUT 20 NM.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 7:48 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 8:42 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX63 min
Jun 19, 10:16 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX59 min
Jun 19, 10:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXHarris, Montgomery3 hr
Jun 19, 11:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXBrazoria, Matagorda6 hr
Jun 20, 2:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXBrazoria, Harris, Matagorda65 hr
Jun 20, 3:08 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX97 min
Jun 20, 5:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXHarris116 min
Jun 20, 5:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXMatagorda3 hr
Jun 20, 5:37 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX83 min
Jun 20, 6:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers, Galveston, Liberty2 hr
Jun 20, 11:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXMatagorda3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.