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Special Weather Statement, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 29, 2012, 10:02 AM CDT for Jackson County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2012, 10:02 AM CDT (15:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
County Jackson County, TX
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The text
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 29, 6:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 6:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 29, 10:02 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 28, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 69 min |
| Mar 28, 9:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison, Walker | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 108 min |
| Mar 28, 11:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Montgomery and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 10:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 64 min | |
| Mar 29, 12:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 86 min | |
| Mar 29, 1:58 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 92 min | |
| Mar 29, 2:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 119 min |
| Mar 29, 2:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 3:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Burleson | 2 hr |
| Mar 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Madison | 59 min |
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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.