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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 2014, 10:43 PM CDT for Brazos County, Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2014, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2014, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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 nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 12, 9:44 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 9:44 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 507 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2014 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-130930- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WHARTON- 507 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT WINDS AND DEEPENING GULF MOISTURE WILL PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT SOMEWHAT CONDUCIVE FOR ISOLATED FUNNELS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON CLOSER TO THE COAST. THESE ARE COMMON IN TROPICAL AIRMASSES AND RARELY EXTEND ALL THE WAY TO THE SURFACE...BUT CAN CAUSE MINOR DAMAGE IF THEY DO. WE WILL BE MONITORING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS AREAS OF PRECIPITATION MOVING SOUTHWARD ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING IN FROM NORTH TEXAS COLLIDES WITH ACTIVITY MOVING NORTHWARD FROM THE GULF AND SEABREEZE. WHERE THIS OCCURS...SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND STORMS COULD BRIEFLY PULSE UP TO STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THE MOST FAVORABLE AREA FOR THIS SITUATION TO OCCUR COULD BE ALONG OR NORTH OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO CONROE TO LIVINGSTON BETWEEN 5 AND 10 PM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL GENERALLY BE 1/2 INCH OR LESS...BUT LOCALIZED 3 TO 4 INCH TOTALS WILL BE A POSSIBILITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WE WILL BE MONITORING THE PROGRESS OF ANOTHER EASTERLY WAVE FORECAST TO MOVE WESTWARD ACROSS THE GULF THIS WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-130930- GALVESTON BAY-MATAGORDA BAY- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM- 507 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT WINDS AND DEEPENING GULF MOISTURE WILL PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT SOMEWHAT CONDUCIVE FOR ISOLATED FUNNELS AND WATERSPOUTS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. MARINERS SHOULD REMAIN CLEAR OF WATERSPOUTS AS THEY CAN PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 KNOTS. OTHERWISE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE HIGHER IN AND NEAR STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED INTO THE WEEKEND. WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE HIGHER IN AND NEAR STORMS. WE WILL BE MONITORING THE PROGRESS OF ANOTHER EASTERLY WAVE FORECAST TO MOVE WESTWARD ACROSS THE GULF THIS WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 12, 9:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 7:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Burleson, Washington | 112 min |
| Sep 12, 8:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Madison | 112 min |
| Sep 12, 8:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 113 min |
| Sep 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Madison | 90 min |
| Sep 12, 11:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Grimes, Waller | 119 min |
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Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2014Every flash flood warning in 2014
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.