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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 28, 1995Houston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 7:24 PM CDT for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1995, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1995, 7:55 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Houston County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4610 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
4610 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Jun 28, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
300 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

SCATTERED RW/TRW ACROSS COASTAL AREAS OF SE TX AT THIS TIME AS
INTERACTION OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM EARLY MORNING ACTIVITY TO OUR N
AND NW...UPPER LEVEL JET...WEAK SHORTWAVES...AND AFTERNOON HEATING
ASSIST IN DESTABLIZATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE.  MODELS CONTINUE TO POINT
TO SHORTWAVES MOVING ACROSS THE AREA THU AND FRI.  THESE DISTURBANCES
ALONG WITH HIGH MOISTURE LEVELS (PRECIP WATERS 1.75 TO 2.00 INCHES
AND MEAN RH VALUES >70%) AND LI/S AROUND -5 SHOULD KEEP RW/TRW
CHANCES NEAR FWC NUMBERS BOTH THU AND FRI.  BEST CONCENTRATION SHOULD
BE DURING THE DAYS AS AFTERNOON HEATING KICKS IN.

WILL GO WITH FWC POPS BUT WILL MAKE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS ON TEMPS.  THE
TEMP FORECAST COULD BE TRICKY DEPENDING ON RW/TRW LOCATION (2 PM
READINGS...HOU=93,NWSO HOU=76,GLS=91).  WE'LL DO OUR BEST.     <42>

IAH EE 075/092 075/091 074 42242

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Washington50 min
Jun 29, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria55 min

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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.