Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 12, 1995, 9:14 PM CST for Fort Bend County, Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 1995, 9:14 PM CST (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1995, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fort Bend County, TX, Harris County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Jan 12, 8:02 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 8:02 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 800 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE/TORNADIC STORMS RAGING OVER SETX THIS EVENING. FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT AND SHOULD! STORMS AROUND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IN SOUTHWEST FA EXIBITING DEEP STRONG MESOCYCLONE STRUCTURES. IN ADDITION LINE OF CELLS MOVING IN FROM THE GULF AHEAD OF FRONT AND ALONG THETAE RIDGE AXIS WILL ARRIVE OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN ZONES IN CONNJUNCTION WITH JET MAX OVER SOUTH TEX ATTM EXPECT TORNADIC/SEVERE ENVIORN (CRP LI-9) TO PERSIST. COORDINATED WITH SELS AND SAT ON EXTENDING/LOCATING NEW TORNADO WATCH. BACK TO THE MADHOUSE. 45
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 4:05 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>199-210>212-132315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 405 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARRIS...BRAZORIA...CHAMBERS...FORT BEND GALVESTON...LIBERTY...MATAGORDA...MONTGOMERY...POLK...SAN JACINTO...WALLER WHARTON...JACKSON...COLORADO...AND AUSTIN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM TONIGHT. TORNADO WATCHS NOW INCLUDE SOUTHEAST TEXAS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE HIGH ISLAND LUFKIN...INCLUDING THE HOUSTON...GALVESTON AREA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME POSSIBLE SEVERE IN THE AREA THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALREADY FORMING OVER WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND SPREAD TO THE EAST DURING THE EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR LATER INFORMATION ON THIS FAST DEVELOPING WEATHER EVENT.
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 4:09 PM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>199-210>212-132315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 405 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HARRIS...BRAZORIA...CHAMBERS...FORT BEND GALVESTON...LIBERTY...MATAGORDA...MONTGOMERY...POLK...SAN JACINTO...WALLER WHARTON...JACKSON...COLORADO...AND AUSTIN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM TONIGHT. TORNADO WATCHS NOW INCLUDE SOUTHEAST TEXAS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE HIGH ISLAND LUFKIN...INCLUDING THE HOUSTON...GALVESTON AREA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME POSSIBLE SEVERE IN THE AREA THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALREADY FORMING OVER WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND SPREAD TO THE EAST DURING THE EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR LATER INFORMATION ON THIS FAST DEVELOPING WEATHER EVENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 6:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Colorado | 59 min |
| Jan 12, 7:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin | 62 min |
| Jan 12, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 59 min |
| Jan 12, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Waller | 57 min |
| Jan 12, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 65 min |
| Jan 12, 9:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 68 min |
| Jan 12, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 57 min |
| Jan 12, 10:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 68 min |
| Jan 12, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 65 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.