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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

September 20, 20196 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this areal flood warning at Sep 20, 2019, 10:30 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 20, 2019, 10:30 AM CDT (15:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 2019, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Harris County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Montgomery County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 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 nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2019-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2552 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2019-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Sep 19, 5:06 PM CDT, 17 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 5:06 PM CDT, 17 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 8:17 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHGXBrazoria4 days
Sep 20, 4:49 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningHGXChambers, Liberty22 hr
Sep 20, 1:29 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningHGXChambers, Liberty6 hr
Sep 20, 4:53 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHGXHarris, Montgomery2 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Texas, 2019Every areal flood warning in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.