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Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

December 24, 2024Brazos County, Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Dec 24, 2024, 8:22 PM CST for Brazos County, Burleson County, 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: Dec 24, 2024, 8:22 PM CST (02:22 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2024, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 328 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1557 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 91 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.8
Supercell composite: 19.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Dec 24, 6:34 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 6:34 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 24, 4:33 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 24, 4:48 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 24, 5:21 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 7:46 PM CST, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 7:57 PM CST, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 8:14 PM CST, 8 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
Dec 24, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	35 min
Dec 24, 6:40 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Chambers, Harris	2 hr
Dec 24, 7:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	26 min
Dec 24, 7:08 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		67 min
Dec 24, 7:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	29 min
Dec 24, 7:53 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	29 min
Dec 24, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison	29 min
Dec 24, 8:13 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		62 min
Dec 24, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Burleson	22 min
Dec 24, 8:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Burleson	24 min
Dec 24, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	10 min
Dec 24, 9:24 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		66 min
Dec 24, 9:45 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		14 hr
Dec 24, 11:08 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Polk, Trinity	2 hr
Dec 24, 11:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Waller	37 min
Dec 24, 11:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	47 min
Dec 24, 11:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Waller	31 min
Dec 24, 11:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria	46 min
Dec 25, 12:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria	45 min
Dec 25, 12:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Colorado	26 min
Dec 25, 12:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria	40 min
Dec 25, 12:21 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Montgomery, Waller	3 hr
Dec 25, 12:22 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Wharton	23 min
Dec 25, 12:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Polk	52 min
Dec 25, 12:37 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	23 min
Dec 25, 12:40 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Jackson	35 min
Dec 25, 12:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Colorado	14 min
Dec 25, 12:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Fort Bend	42 min
Dec 25, 1:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	29 min
Dec 25, 1:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria	22 min
Dec 25, 1:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston	29 min
Dec 25, 1:36 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		54 min
Dec 25, 1:38 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		52 min
Dec 25, 1:41 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty	49 min
Dec 25, 1:48 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery	3 hr
Dec 25, 2:26 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty	49 min
Dec 25, 2:30 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		2 hr
Dec 25, 3:20 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Galveston	25 min
Dec 25, 3:54 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		2 hr
Dec 25, 4:39 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		96 min
Dec 25, 5:24 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.