Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 6, 1987, 6:03 PM CST for Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 6, 1987, 6:03 PM CST (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 6, 1987, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Fort Bend 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.