Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
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.
- 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
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 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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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 65 min |
| Dec 17, 3:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Waller | 54 min |
| Dec 17, 3:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 56 min |
| Dec 17, 3:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes | 39 min |
| Dec 17, 3:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Walker | 68 min |
| Dec 17, 4:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 52 min |
| Dec 17, 4:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Dec 17, 5:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 59 min |
| Dec 17, 5:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 34 min |
| Dec 17, 5:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 57 min |
| Dec 17, 6:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Burleson | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 6:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 59 min |
| Dec 17, 7:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 51 min |
| Dec 17, 7:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Grimes | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Dec 17, 8:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 61 min |
| Dec 17, 8:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 2 hr |
| Dec 17, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 2 hr |
| Dec 17, 9:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 2 hr |
| Dec 17, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 2 hr |
| Dec 17, 9:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Galveston | 63 min |
| Dec 17, 9:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers | 118 min |
| Dec 17, 9:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 118 min |
| Dec 17, 10:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 118 min |
| Dec 17, 10:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 58 min |
| Dec 17, 11:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 4 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 4 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 48 min |
| Dec 17, 2:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers | 2 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 2 hr |
| Dec 17, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 59 min |
| Dec 17, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 5:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 61 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.