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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 7, 1995Trinity County, Walker County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 5:29 PM CDT for Trinity County, Walker County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 281 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1851 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 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
1851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
9.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery50 min
May 7, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXSan Jacinto41 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.