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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 4, 201311 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this red flag warning at May 4, 2013, 10:15 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 4, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2013, 10:15 AM CDT (15:15 UTC)
In effect from: May 4, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 4, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Houston County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:12 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 3, 5:53 PM CDT, 16 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 5:53 PM CDT, 16 hours 22 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 4, 10:33 AM CDT	Low Water Advisory	HGX		4 hr
May 4, 4:55 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		5 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2013 Every red flag warning in 2013

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.