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River Flood Warning 161, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 25, 2015, 9:20 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2015, 9:20 AM CDT (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2015, 3:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Moderate
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:20 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 San Bernard River near Boling (BOLT2). The gauge peaked at 25.80 ft at Oct 26, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 14 ft
- Minor stage
- 18 ft
- Moderate stage
- 22 ft
- Major stage
- 32 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08117500, 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 25, 5:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 5:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 8:08 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 27 hr |
| Oct 24, 8:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Grimes, Madison, Waller, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 62 min | |
| Oct 24, 9:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Grimes, Madison and 1 more | 108 min |
| Oct 24, 9:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Matagorda, Wharton | 3 days |
| Oct 24, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 10:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Liberty | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Fort Bend, Grimes and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 32 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 19 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:36 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 24 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:43 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 24 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 4:45 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda | 5 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:20 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton | 5 days |
| Oct 25, 9:20 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 3 days |
| Oct 25, 9:20 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 15 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:20 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Burleson, Lee | 38 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:20 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson | 44 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Burleson, Washington | 27 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:48 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | HGX | Galveston | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 4:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 24 hr |
| Oct 25, 4:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston, Harris | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.