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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

December 17, 1995Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 1995, 2:00 AM CST for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 1995, 2:00 AM CST (08:00 UTC)
Expired
Dec 17, 1995, 3:00 AM CST
In force
60 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, 8.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 212 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 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 Dec 16, 8:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 8:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 16, 10:44 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-511-513-171045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
1044 PM CST SAT DEC 16 1995

...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY
MORNING...

PATCHY DENSE FOG DEVELOPED EARLY THIS EVENING IN THE BRAZOS RIVER
VALLEY AND A LITTLE LATER IN THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY FROM LA GRANGE
SOUTHEASTWARD.  PATCHY SEA FOG ALONG THE COAST HAD PUSHED INLAND TO
THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SUBURBS OF HOUSTON...AS WELL AS GALVESTON
AND TRINITY BAY.  AT 1030 PM...VISIBILITIES HAD DROPPED TO NEAR 1/4
MILE AT BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION.  GENERALLY...VISIBILITIES WERE IN THE 1
TO 3 MILE RANGE ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA.

A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL SYSTEM LOCATED FROM NEAR JASPER WESTWARD
TO NEAR SAN ANTONIO WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT ALLOWING
THE FOG TO BLANKET MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY
MORNING.  VISIBILITY WILL LIKELY DROP TO LESS THAN 1/2 MILE OVER MUCH
OF THE REGION.

THE DENSE FOG WILL LIKELY PERSIST THROUGH THE MID MORNING HOURS
SUNDAY...SO MOTORISTS TRAVERSING THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT SHOULD BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL...SLOW DOWN...
USE ONLY YOUR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS TO AVOID BLINDING ON COMING VEHICLE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 2:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMatagorda65 min
Dec 17, 3:06 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGrimes, Waller54 min
Dec 17, 3:19 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery56 min
Dec 17, 3:19 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXGrimes39 min
Dec 17, 3:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWalker68 min
Dec 17, 4:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto52 min
Dec 17, 4:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery31 min
Dec 17, 5:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk59 min
Dec 17, 5:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto34 min
Dec 17, 5:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria, Matagorda57 min
Dec 17, 6:13 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXBurleson3 hr
Dec 17, 6:54 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXPolk, San Jacinto3 hr
Dec 17, 7:31 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMatagorda59 min
Dec 17, 7:39 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXMatagorda51 min
Dec 17, 7:44 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXGrimes3 hr
Dec 17, 7:59 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXMontgomery4 hr
Dec 17, 8:14 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria, Matagorda61 min
Dec 17, 8:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXHarris, Liberty2 hr
Dec 17, 8:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris, Liberty2 hr
Dec 17, 9:00 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXGalveston2 hr
Dec 17, 9:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston2 hr
Dec 17, 9:27 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXGalveston63 min
Dec 17, 9:47 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers118 min
Dec 17, 9:47 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers118 min
Dec 17, 10:02 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXMatagorda118 min
Dec 17, 10:32 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria, Matagorda58 min
Dec 17, 11:15 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXBrazoria, Fort Bend4 hr
Dec 17, 11:15 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXMatagorda4 hr
Dec 17, 11:23 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXGalveston3 hr
Dec 17, 11:31 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria48 min
Dec 17, 2:27 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXGalveston3 hr
Dec 17, 3:20 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers2 hr
Dec 17, 3:20 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXBrazoria2 hr
Dec 17, 5:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria59 min
Dec 17, 5:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXBrazoria, Galveston3 hr
Dec 17, 5:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers3 hr
Dec 17, 5:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk61 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.