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River Flood Warning 68, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

October 16, 2007Jackson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 16, 2007, 10:24 AM CDT for Jackson County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 17, 2007, 2:15 AM CDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 16, 2007, 10:24 AM CDT (15:24 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 17, 2007, 2:15 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 18, 2007, 8:33 PM CDT
In force: 42 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Flood severity: Minor

County Jackson County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Navidad River at Strane Park (LSNT2). The gauge peaked at 27.31 ft at Oct 18, 2007, 2:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 24 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08164390, 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 Oct 16, 4:08 AM CDT, 6 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 4:08 AM CDT, 6 hours 16 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
Oct 15, 7:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	11 hr
Oct 15, 7:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	15 hr
Oct 15, 8:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado	2 hr
Oct 16, 1:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend	24 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.