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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 15, 2026Brazos County, Burleson County, Washington County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2026, 4:43 AM CDT for Brazos County, Burleson County, Washington County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 15, 2026, 4:43 AM CDT (09:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2026, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Washington County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 15, 3:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 3:51 AM CDT, 52 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
Jun 14, 7:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	118 min
Jun 15, 1:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Burleson	3 hr
Jun 15, 2:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	4 hr
Jun 15, 6:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	40 min
Jun 15, 7:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	4 hr
Jun 15, 8:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Grimes	3 hr
Jun 15, 8:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Burleson, Washington	37 hr
Jun 15, 8:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Washington	2 hr
Jun 15, 9:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Austin, Grimes, Waller, Washington	118 min
Jun 15, 11:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris	2 hr
Jun 15, 11:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	2 hr
Jun 15, 12:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Liberty, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 15, 12:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	117 min
Jun 15, 2:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	110 min
Jun 15, 2:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	6 hr
Jun 15, 2:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	112 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.