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River Flood Warning 206, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

December 13, 2015Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2015, 9:59 PM CST for Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 16, 2015, 4:47 AM CST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 13, 2015, 9:59 PM CST (03:59 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 16, 2015, 4:47 AM CST
Expired: Dec 20, 2015, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

Counties Brazoria County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Brazos River near Rosharon (ROST2). The gauge peaked at 45.60 ft at Dec 18, 2015, 9:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 40 ft
Minor stage: 43 ft
Moderate stage: 47 ft
Major stage: 51.3 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08116650, 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 Dec 13, 3:01 PM CST, 6 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 3:01 PM CST, 6 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 13, 3:07 PM CST, 6 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 13, 5:45 PM CST, 4 hours 14 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
Dec 13, 9:59 PM CST	River Flood Warning	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Waller	36 hr
Dec 13, 10:12 PM CST	River Flood Warning	HGX	Lavaca	20 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.