Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1987, 3:02 PM CDT for Colorado County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1987, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1987, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colorado County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 1:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 135 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 1987 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE FORT BEND-BRAZORIA COUNTY LINE SOUTHEAST OF RICHMOND. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES THROUGH FORT BEND COUNTY INTO THE RICHMOND-ROSENBERG AREA. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS AS NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 1:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
CORRECTION...DATE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 135 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1987 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE FORT BEND-BRAZORIA COUNTY LINE SOUTHEAST OF RICHMOND. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES THROUGH FORT BEND COUNTY INTO THE RICHMOND-ROSENBERG AREA. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS AS NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 2:28 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
CORRECTION...DATE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 230 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1987 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN COLARADO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM ARE MOVING NORTHEWEST THROUGH THE COLUMBUS AREA. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED NORTHEAST OF INTERCONTINETAL AIPRORT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO MOVING NORTHWEST ACROSS NORTHEASTERN HARRIS AND SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT FREQUENT LIGHTING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS AS NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 2:29 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 230 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1987 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN COLARADO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM ARE MOVING NORTHEWEST THROUGH THE COLUMBUS AREA. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED NORTHEAST OF INTERCONTINETAL AIPRORT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO MOVING NORTHWEST ACROSS NORTHEASTERN HARRIS AND SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT FREQUENT LIGHTING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS AS NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.