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River Flood Warning 49, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 4, 2009Chambers County, Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at May 4, 2009, 11:04 AM CDT for Chambers County, Liberty County, Texas. It took effect at May 5, 2009, 5:48 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2009, 11:04 AM CDT (16:04 UTC)
In effect from: May 5, 2009, 5:48 PM CDT
Expired: May 6, 2009, 9:08 AM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Chambers County, TX, Liberty County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:01 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 Trinity River near Moss Bluff (MBFT2).

Action stage: 9.2 ft
Minor stage: 12.2 ft
Moderate stage: 15.2 ft
Major stage: 17.2 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08067100, 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 May 3, 6:40 PM CDT, 16 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 6:40 PM CDT, 16 hours 24 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
May 3, 8:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto	15 hr
May 4, 11:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Chambers, Liberty	34 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.