Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 31, 1995, 7:30 PM CST for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 1995, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 1995, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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
- 251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Oct 31, 3:42 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 3:42 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION ...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 335 PM CST TUE OCT 31 1995 IN ADDITION TO THE EARLIER AFD...DECIDED TO KEEP HIER POPS IN THE LATER PDS THAN SUGGESTED BY THE FWC. A SFC LOW LOOKS TO BE LOCATED OVR SRN TX BY THE END OF THE PD...WHILE ALL THREE MODELS SUGGEST AT TSTM ACTIVITY DURG THE LATER PDS. ALSO...I MAY HAVE UNDER ESTIMATED THE CHCS FOR TONIGHT EARLIER. SATL LOOPS SHOW THE NOSE OF THE JET MOVG INTO THE HILL COUNTRY AREA WHERE TSTMS WHERE OCCURRING AS OF LATE WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE DIGGING AROUND THE S/W AND COMING THIS WAY. SO...HAVE UP EARLIER THOUGHTS ON POPS ACROSS THE AREA WITH HIER POPS STILL WELL INLAND NEAR THE CURRENT ACTIVITY. TEMPS NR MOS. PRELIMS... IAH EE 066/082 065/084 064 40454
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 60 min |
| Oct 31, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson, Washington | 57 min |
| Oct 31, 7:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Washington | 25 min |
| Oct 31, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 117 min |
| Nov 1, 2:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Washington | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Madison | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 4:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 4:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 96 min |
| Nov 1, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.