Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1995, 4:08 PM CST for San Jacinto County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1995, 4:08 PM CST (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1995, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Jacinto County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 321 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1213 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 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 Nov 1, 3:50 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 3:50 PM CST, 18 minutes before
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</html>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, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 30 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 |
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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.