Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 12, 1995, 1:30 PM CST for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 1995, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1995, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 12, 9:28 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 9:28 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jan 12, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours before
TXZ164-177>179-199-200-210>214-226-227-235>238-122350- SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1030 AM CST THU JAN 12 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WITH AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT AND THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT INCREASING INSTABILITY AND THE CHANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE AROUND ONE INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE. THE GROUND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS STILL SOME WHAT SATURATED FROM RAINS IN DECEMBER AND EARLIER THIS MONTH AND MANY STREAMS AND RIVERS ARE STILL FULL. RAINFALL OF THIS AMOUNT COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OR SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND COULD CAUSE SOME RIVERS TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS. ALL RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY ABREAST OF THE CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LIMIT THEIR TRAVEL TONIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD CHECK THEIR PREPARDNESS PLANS AND STAFFING LEVELS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AS WELL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER NEWS SOURCES FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 10:31 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ164-177>179-199-200-210>214-226-227-235>238-122350- SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1030 AM CST THU JAN 12 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WITH AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT AND THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT INCREASING INSTABILITY AND THE CHANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE AROUND ONE INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE. THE GROUND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS STILL SOME WHAT SATURATED FROM RAINS IN DECEMBER AND EARLIER THIS MONTH AND MANY STREAMS AND RIVERS ARE STILL FULL. RAINFALL OF THIS AMOUNT COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OR SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND COULD CAUSE SOME RIVERS TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS. ALL RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY ABREAST OF THE CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LIMIT THEIR TRAVEL TONIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD CHECK THEIR PREPARDNESS PLANS AND STAFFING LEVELS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AS WELL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER NEWS SOURCES FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos | 65 min |
| Jan 12, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Madison | 59 min |
| Jan 12, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 68 min |
| Jan 12, 5:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison | 66 min |
| Jan 12, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison | 66 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.