Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1995, 8:47 AM CST for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1995, 8:47 AM CST (14:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1995, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 291448 RRA SVRHOU TXC225-291530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 847 AM CST WED MAR 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...HOUSTON COUNTY AT 845 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR CROCKETT WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CROCKETT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE CITY OF WECHES IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE HAIL AROUND 900 AM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IzN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:01 AM CST, 5 hours 46 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, 3 hours 11 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 7:15 AM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
TXZ199-291420- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 715 AM CST WED MAR 29 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 AM FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY... AT 715 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONROE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM PRODUCED NICKEL SIZE HAIL WHILE PASSING OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF CONROE AT ABOUT 705 AM.
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, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.