Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 4:10 PM CDT for Polk County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1995, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 3173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 28, 2:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 215 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 PREV THINKING STILL HOLDING UP WITH JET AXIS ASSOCIATED CONVECTION. PER H20 VAPOR--MAIN JET AXIS STRETCHING FROM LRD TO HOU TO ESF WITH SATEL AND RADAR INDICATING BRANCHING OVER EXTREME SETX AND CENT LA. DEWPOINTS REMAIN HIGH IN THE 75-78 RANGE...CAPES RUNNING HIGH AT 4400+. JET DYNAMICS BEGIN TO WEAKEN AFTER MIDNIGHT SO WILL EXPECT CONVECTION TO WEAKEN EAST AND THEN REDEVELOP TO THE N AND NW IN ASSOCIATION WITH APPROACHING S/W AND FRONT. BUT IN THE MEANTIME MORE HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NE ZONES. WILL ISSUE FFA FOR THE N-NE. RAINFALL TOTALS OVER THE NE ZONES OF 1" TO 2" WITH ISOLATED 4-5" AMOUNTS THROUGH MIDNIGHT...HARDIN AND JASPER ALREADY HARD HIT WITH 88D ESTIMATES OF 3 TO 4 INCHES AS OF 19Z. VILS OF 60 LOOK LIKE SVR TERRITORY. COORDINATED WITH SAT ON FFA...FROM BPT TO CLL TO AUS AND POINTS WEST. WILL MENTION SVR POSSIBLE OVER MOST OF AREA WITH LOC HVY RAIN OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF FA. 45
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 11:04 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>213-290050- SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINFALL OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1100 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER MOST OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...GENERALLY NORTH OF A BEAUMONT TO BAY CITY TO VICTORIA LINE. THE CITIES OF HOUSTON... BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION...BEAUMONT AND HUNTSVILLE ARE INCLUDED IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. DAYTIME HEATING WILL INTERACT WITH COOL THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE GREATEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION MAINLY NORTH OF A BEAUMONT TO LIBERTY TO MADISONVILLE LINE. RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL FROM EARLY THIS MORNING RANGED FROM 1/4 TO 1 1/2 INCHES WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS ALONG A LINE FROM CLEVELAND TO NEWTON. ADDITIONAL RAINS AVERAGING AROUND 1 INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER 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 28, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 60 min |
| May 28, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 2 hr |
| May 28, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 2 hr |
| May 28, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 51 min |
| May 28, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk | 2 hr |
| May 28, 6:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 2 hr |
| May 28, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 62 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.