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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

September 18, 1996Brazos County, Madison County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 1996, 8:33 PM CDT for Brazos County, Madison County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 18, 1996, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Sep 18, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brazos County, TX, Madison County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 18, 9:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	North Zulch, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 Sep 18, 1:59 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 1:59 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 18, 4:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 18, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Walker	64 min
Sep 18, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Burleson, Washington	63 min
Sep 18, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Washington	48 min
Sep 18, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	San Jacinto	63 min
Sep 18, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin	55 min
Sep 19, 12:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	3 hr
Sep 19, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Galveston	60 min
Sep 19, 2:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	57 min
Sep 19, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Trinity	49 min
Sep 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto	45 min
Sep 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Polk, Trinity	46 min
Sep 19, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto	64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.