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River Flood Warning 48, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 14, 2018, 8:35 AM CDT for Trinity County, Walker County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 14, 2018, 12:12 PM CDT. It was in force for 43 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2018, 8:35 AM CDT (13:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2018, 12:12 PM CDT
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2018, 8:58 PM CST
- In force
- 43 days
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Moderate
Counties Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Trinity River at Riverside (RVRT2). The gauge peaked at 138.99 ft at Oct 18, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 132 ft
- Minor stage
- 133.5 ft
- Moderate stage
- 136 ft
- Major stage
- 140 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08066000, 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 14, 6:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 6:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 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 13, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston, Madison | 40 min |
| Oct 13, 8:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Houston, Madison | 117 min |
| Oct 13, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Trinity, Walker | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Angelina | 39 min |
| Oct 14, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Madison, Walker | 4 days |
| Oct 14, 5:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:34 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 46 days |
Nearby
River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2018Every river flood warning in 2018
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.