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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Feb 25, 2018, 1:39 PM CST for Montgomery County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 25, 2018, 7:42 PM CST. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2018, 1:39 PM CST (19:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2018, 7:42 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2018, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Montgomery County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Peach Creek near Splendora (SPDT2).
- Action stage
- 11 ft
- Minor stage
- 14 ft
- Moderate stage
- 17 ft
- Major stage
- 19 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08071000, 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 Feb 25, 12:08 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 12:08 PM CST, 1 hour 31 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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| Feb 25, 11:51 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Hardin, Liberty, Polk | 4 days |
| Feb 25, 12:39 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazos | 36 min |
| Feb 25, 1:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Washington | 45 min |
| Feb 25, 1:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Grimes | 50 min |
| Feb 25, 3:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazos, Grimes, Montgomery, Walker, Waller and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:35 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 4 days |
| Feb 25, 4:53 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Waller | 24 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:53 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 24 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:56 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Waller | 24 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:56 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Waller | 27 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:56 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 24 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:56 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 24 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:56 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery, Waller | 16 hr |
| Feb 25, 5:01 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker | 3 hr |
| Feb 25, 5:10 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | HGX | Waller | 12 hr |
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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.