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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 17, 1995Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 11:18 PM CDT for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 72 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 11:18 PM CDT (04:18 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 72 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Burleson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1300 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1356 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 17, 8:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 8:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 7:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 10:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

TXZ163-164-176-177-195>199-180405-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
1003 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM FOR THE NORTHWEST
PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  AT THIS TIME...THE
THREAT FOR TORNADO FORMATION HAS DIMINISHED AND NO SOUTHEAST TEXAS
COUNTIES ARE UNDER ANY WATCHES OR WARNINGS.  HOWEVER...AS A COLD
FRONT CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA FROM THE WEST...THE THREAT FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT STILL EXISTS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER NEWS SOURCES FOR
FURTHER UPDATES.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos	68 min
May 18, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	57 min
May 18, 2:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Burleson	30 min
May 18, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Madison	66 min
May 18, 2:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Brazos	64 min
May 18, 3:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes	33 min
May 18, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston	61 min
May 18, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Walker	53 min
May 18, 4:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	San Jacinto, Trinity	56 min
May 18, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Montgomery	25 min
May 18, 7:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris, Liberty	55 min
May 18, 7:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Liberty	59 min
May 18, 8:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Liberty	16 min
May 18, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria	54 min
May 18, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Matagorda	33 min
May 18, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty	39 min
May 18, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria	29 min
May 18, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris	45 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.