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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 22, 2015Lavaca County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Mar 22, 2015, 8:37 AM CDT for Lavaca County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 22, 2015, 11:04 AM CDT. It was in force for 35 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 22, 2015, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 22, 2015, 11:04 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 23, 2015, 9:43 PM CDT
In force
35 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Lavaca County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 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 Navidad River at Sublime (SBMT2). The gauge peaked at 23.64 ft at Mar 22, 2015, 10:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
20 ft
Minor stage
24 ft
Moderate stage
25 ft
Major stage
26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08164300, 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 Mar 21, 6:41 PM CDT, 13 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 6:41 PM CDT, 13 hours 56 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 3:11 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHGXAustin, Fort Bend, Wharton53 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2015Every 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.