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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Feb 20, 2020, 8:57 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 21, 2020, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2020, 8:57 AM CST (14:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 21, 2020, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2020, 8:45 AM CST
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:56 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 133.52 ft at Feb 22, 2020, 1:00 AM CST.
- 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 Feb 20, 5:39 AM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 5:39 AM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 3:19 AM CST | Gale Warning | HGX | 25 hr | |
| Feb 20, 3:21 AM CST | Wind Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Jackson, Matagorda | 27 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.