Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 23, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT for Polk County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Sep 23, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2006, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 5284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 Sep 23, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 23, 4:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 8:01 PM CDT | Flood Watch | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 24, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 2 hr | |
| Sep 24, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 113 min | |
| Sep 24, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 88 min | |
| Sep 24, 3:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 93 min |
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.