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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 13, 2013, 2:56 PM CDT for Austin County, Fort Bend County, Wharton County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 13, 2013, 6:51 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2013, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2013, 6:51 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2013, 11:59 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 days
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Austin County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point San Bernard River at East Bernard (EBBT2).
- Action stage
- 13 ft
- Minor stage
- 17 ft
- Moderate stage
- 23 ft
- Major stage
- 28 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 13, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Madison | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Madison | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 40 min |
| Oct 13, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 3:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 111 min |
| Oct 13, 4:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Madison | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Harris, Waller, Washington | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Waller | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 6:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Austin, Waller | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 6:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin, Waller | 117 min |
| Oct 13, 7:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Montgomery, Washington | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 8:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Waller | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Jackson, Waller, Wharton | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Jackson, Matagorda and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Wharton | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 2 hr |
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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.