Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 7:22 AM CDT for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 7:22 AM CDT (12:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harris County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 303 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
- 2580 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
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 Apr 4, 3:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 3:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 4, 5:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-511-513-041700- SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINFALL OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 515 AM CDT TUE APR 4 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY. A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA...LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT...AND FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS WILL CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA INCLUDE COLLEGE STATION...BRENHAM... HOUSTON... EL CAMPO...GALVESTON...LIVINGSTON...JASPER AND BEAUMONT/PORT ARTHUR. IN ADDITION A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT. THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING WILL BE MOVING INTO THE REGION TODAY PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...GENERALLY WEST OF A HIGH ISLAND TO KOUNTZE LINE TODAY BEFORE THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN SHIFTS SOUTH AND EAST TONIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE COMMON OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. THIS THREAT MzAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED WEDNESDAY AS THE FRONT BECOMES NEARLY STATIONARY NEAR THE COAST. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 57 min |
| Apr 4, 10:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Jackson | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 10:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 68 min |
| Apr 4, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 62 min |
| Apr 4, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 41 min |
| Apr 4, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 61 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.