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River Flood Warning 56, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

July 15, 20074 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Jul 15, 2007, 11:07 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jul 15, 2007, 1:37 PM CDT. It was in force for 55 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 2007, 11:07 AM CDT (16:07 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 15, 2007, 1:37 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 17, 2007, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Washington County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 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 river

Written for the forecast point Brazos River near Bryan (BBZT2).

Action stage: 37 ft
Minor stage: 52 ft
Moderate stage: 60 ft
Major stage: 66 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08108700, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Jul 15, 10:07 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 10:07 AM CDT, 1 hour before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 5:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 15, 7:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Montgomery	28 min
Jul 14, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	15 min
Jul 15, 10:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		118 min
Jul 15, 11:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Waller	22 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2007 Every river flood warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.