Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1995, 6:54 AM CST for Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1995, 6:54 AM CST (12:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1995, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 391 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
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Mar 29, 3:01 AM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:01 AM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 245 AM CST WED MAR 29 1995 KGRK WSR-88D REFLECTIVIY LOOP INDICATES MORE RW/TRW APPROACHING SW ZNS. SFC ANAL SHOWS WK CYCLONIC CIRCULATION LOWER TX COASTAL WATERS. WOULD TEND TO AGREE W/NMC QPF DISCUSSION W/AVIATION MDL HAVING A BETTER HANDLE ON PCPN FCST OVR SE TX. AVC GRIDDED DATA INDICATES GREATEST UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION LATE TODAY AND TONITE OVR REGION. EXCEPT FOR POPS...NG$M MOS GUIDANCE APPEARS REASONABLE. #37 PRELIM... IAH TT 065/055 068/057 37585
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 5:36 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
TXZ195-210-226-235-291240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 536 AM CST WED MAR 29 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN SECTIONS OF COLORADO ...JACKSON AND WHARTON COUNTIES...AND DEVELOPING OVER WASHINGTON COUNTY.... AT 515 AM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER BRENHAM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR AND WILL AFFECT WASHINGTON STATE PARK BY 545 AM. OTHER THUNDERSTROMS WERE APROCHING JACKSON... COLORADO...AND WHARTON COUNTIES FROM THE WEST AND WILL EFFECT CORDELE AND SHERIDAN SHORTLY BEFORE 600 AM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 5:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 6:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 8:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 43 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.