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River Flood Warning 36, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Nov 12, 2008, 3:57 PM CST for Harris County, Montgomery County, Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2008, 3:57 PM CST (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 13, 2008, 1:04 AM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Harris County, TX, Montgomery County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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 river
Written for the forecast point West Fork San Jacinto River near Humble (HMMT2).
- Action stage
- 45.3 ft
- Minor stage
- 49.3 ft
- Moderate stage
- 50.3 ft
- Major stage
- 52.3 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08069500, 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 Nov 12, 3:28 PM CST, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 3:28 PM CST, 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Nov 11, 6:32 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Montgomery, Waller | 118 min |
| Nov 11, 7:30 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 24 hr |
| Nov 11, 8:25 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Nov 11, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 9:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery, Waller | 49 min |
| Nov 11, 10:02 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Grimes, Montgomery, Waller, Washington | 3 hr |
| Nov 11, 10:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Nov 11, 11:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 11:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 39 min |
| Nov 11, 11:48 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Harris, Montgomery, Waller | 117 min |
| Nov 12, 1:47 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Wharton | 118 min |
| Nov 12, 1:57 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 2 hr | |
| Nov 12, 2:08 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 42 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 27 min |
| Nov 12, 3:38 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 52 min | |
| Nov 12, 9:10 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 23 hr |
Nearby
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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.