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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 3, 1991Harris County, Montgomery County, Waller County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1991, 8:46 AM CDT for Harris County, Montgomery County, Waller County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 1991, 8:46 AM CDT (13:46 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1991, 9:45 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harris County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Waller County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 308 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2965 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 213 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2965 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.9
Supercell composite
23.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 5:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk47 min
May 3, 7:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Colorado57 min
May 3, 7:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWashington57 min
May 3, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXColorado62 min
May 3, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston59 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.