Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 2:26 AM CDT for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1997, 2:26 AM CDT (07:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 3531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 Jun 13, 8:08 PM CDT, 6 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 8:08 PM CDT, 6 hours 18 minutes before
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TXZ163-164-140800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 931 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM GROVETON TO CROCKETT THROUGH 3 AM... ...COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE HOUSTON AND TRINITY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3 AM FOR A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. A VERY WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT THIS COMBINED WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST TEXAS THAT HAVE PUSHED COOL OUTFLOWS INTO THE AREA WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR THESE COOL OUTFLOWS BRINGING THE THREAT OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...IN ADDITION VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL EXSIST AS THESE LARGE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF A SERIES OF STORMS MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 9:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
TXZ163-164-140800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 931 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM GROVETON TO CROCKETT THROUGH 3 AM... ...COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE HOUSTON AND TRINITY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3 AM FOR A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. A VERY WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT THIS COMBINED WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST TEXAS THAT HAVE PUSHED COOL OUTFLOWS INTO THE AREA WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR THESE COOL OUTFLOWS BRINGING THE THREAT OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...IN ADDITION VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL EXSIST AS THESE LARGE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF A SERIES OF STORMS MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WE:ATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Houston | 118 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.