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River Flood Warning 39, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this river flood warning at Mar 21, 2024, 2:32 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Wharton County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 21, 2024, 4:44 PM CDT. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 2024, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 21, 2024, 4:44 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2024, 8:33 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point San Bernard River near Boling (BOLT2). The gauge peaked at 22.49 ft at Mar 22, 2024, 5:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 14 ft
- Minor stage
- 18 ft
- Moderate stage
- 22 ft
- Major stage
- 32 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08117500, 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, 1:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 1:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 21, 8:54 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 66 min | |
| Mar 21, 8:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Matagorda | 34 min |
| Mar 21, 9:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 49 min | |
| Mar 21, 9:57 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 19 hr | |
| Mar 21, 10:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 45 min | |
| Mar 21, 10:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazoria | 55 min |
| Mar 21, 11:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 60 min | |
| Mar 21, 11:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 12:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 12:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 31 min | |
| Mar 21, 12:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 37 min | |
| Mar 21, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Austin | 24 min |
| Mar 21, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Austin | 44 min |
| Mar 21, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Waller | 34 min |
| Mar 21, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Harris | 67 min |
| Mar 21, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 30 min |
| Mar 21, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Mar 21, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 32 min |
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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.