Space City Weather Flood Scale

But for the city of houston however this qualifies as a stage 3 event.

Space city weather flood scale. Foxhall even mentioned space city weather and eric. Space city weather flood scale. Note this distinction on our revised flood scale above. Thanks and keep up the awesome calm job y all do of reporting the weather.

Given the weather events of the last couple of days a hurricane making. This scale is not officially sanctioned by any government organization. Space city weather flood scale. Thank you thank you to space city weather and reliant.

Hi i love your space city weather flood scale. From the houston chronicle on 4 25 2016. But for the city of houston however this qualifies as a stage 3 event. While we have numerous readers from those areas we want to keep the space city weather scale focused on the houston area.

One request when considering your flood scale can you include in the scale the may 2015 flood in clear lake are that flooded many homes. The north northwest part of the county got hit hardest. When tornado related damage is surveyed it is compared to a list of damage indicators dis and degrees of damage dod. Tuesday space city weather updated its flood scale alert from stage 2 to stage 3 for the houston metro area south of i 10 forecasting the potential for significant flash flooding.

Here s what we came up with. Likewise we are thankful for our readers as well as reliant who has been a great long time sponsor of our site. The tally of flooded homes in harris county reached 6 700 on sunday surpassing the total from last year s memorial day flood. Over time the scale evolved into a rating from flood stage 1 street flooding through flood stage 5 hurricane harvey.

I like to refer to it as the flood the city forgot. Our forecast remains one of ample sunshine and warm weather for houston along with the return of humidity by the middle of the week. While this is not a catastrophic storm yet it has produced widespread street flooding in central and southern parts of the houston area. They keep the lights on for us figuratively and literally.

While we have numerous readers from those areas we want to keep the space city weather scale focused on the houston area. Note this distinction on our revised flood scale above. Posted by eric berger at 7 16 am on october 5 2020. Why did we elevate the risk.

For eastern harris county this was probably a stage 4 storm. The enhanced fujita scale or ef scale which became operational on february 1 2007 is used to assign a tornado a rating based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.