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River Flood Warning 170, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

October 27, 2015Austin County, Fort Bend County, Wharton County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 27, 2015, 2:28 PM CDT for Austin County, Fort Bend County, Wharton County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 27, 2015, 4:17 PM CDT. It was in force for 39 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 2015, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 27, 2015, 4:17 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 29, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
39 hr
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 19:29 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 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 26, 3:51 PM CDT, 22 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 3:51 PM CDT, 22 hours 37 minutes before
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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.