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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 11, 1995Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1995, 2:19 PM CDT for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1995, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Burleson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 315 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3033 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3033 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.1
Supercell composite
12.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 11:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria65 min
May 11, 11:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXFort Bend49 min
May 11, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston65 min
May 11, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Washington56 min
May 11, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXColorado56 min
May 11, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers22 min
May 11, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris, Montgomery57 min
May 11, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWaller35 min
May 11, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Washington60 min
May 11, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers45 min
May 11, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery67 min
May 11, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston62 min
May 11, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMatagorda35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.