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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 28, 1994Galveston County, Harris County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1994, 2:57 PM CDT for Galveston County, Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1994, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Galveston County, TX, Harris County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1994-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1466 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1994-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
1466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.1

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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 27, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston62 min
May 27, 10:49 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHouston56 min
May 27, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston62 min
May 27, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXTrinity62 min
May 28, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk68 min
May 28, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWalker44 min
May 28, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk59 min
May 28, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos52 min
May 28, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria58 min
May 28, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson40 min
May 28, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWashington52 min
May 28, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWashington34 min
May 28, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Waller60 min
May 28, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty52 min
May 28, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.