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River Flood Warning 33, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

September 22, 2020Brazoria County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Sep 22, 2020, 9:18 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 23, 2020, 5:30 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 22, 2020, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 23, 2020, 5:30 PM CDT
Expired
Sep 23, 2020, 10:14 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Brazoria County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 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 river

Written for the forecast point San Bernard River near Old Ocean (OCNT2). The gauge peaked at 6.66 ft at Sep 24, 2020, 3:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
5 ft
Minor stage
7 ft
Moderate stage
11 ft
Major stage
16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08117705, 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 Sep 22, 6:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 6:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 7:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Harris4 hr
Sep 22, 7:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXHarris, Waller3 hr
Sep 22, 8:18 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHGXHarris6 hr
Sep 22, 8:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery2 hr
Sep 22, 9:05 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHGXAustin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Wharton60 hr
Sep 22, 9:23 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHGXHarris5 hr
Sep 22, 10:51 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningHGXFort Bend, Harris, Waller3 hr
Sep 22, 10:53 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHGXHarris9 hr
Sep 23, 12:19 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHGXChambers, Harris, Liberty116 min
Sep 23, 7:14 AM CDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Matagorda21 hr
Sep 23, 7:14 AM CDTRip Current StatementHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Matagorda6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2020Every 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.