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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 22, 20204 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Mar 22, 2020, 3:13 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 24, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2020, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 24, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 12, 2020, 3:13 PM CDT
In force: 20 days
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 20:12 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 135.76 ft at Apr 2, 2020, 7:00 PM 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 Mar 21, 3:48 PM CDT, 23 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 3:48 PM CDT, 23 hours 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Waller, Washington	44 min
Mar 21, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Austin, Montgomery, Waller	48 min
Mar 21, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty, Montgomery	42 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.