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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 17, 1997Madison County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 5:28 AM CDT for Madison County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 17, 1997, 5:28 AM CDT (10:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1997, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5256 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
5256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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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 17, 1:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 1:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 5:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston22 min
Jun 17, 5:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXTrinity68 min
Jun 17, 6:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk61 min
Jun 17, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Grimes, Waller, Washington64 min
Jun 17, 7:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris, Montgomery59 min
Jun 17, 8:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk36 min
Jun 17, 8:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto62 min
Jun 17, 9:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson, Washington67 min
Jun 17, 10:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Washington55 min
Jun 17, 10:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery, Waller56 min
Jun 17, 10:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Colorado59 min
Jun 17, 11:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris57 min
Jun 17, 11:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Colorado66 min
Jun 17, 11:52 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris68 min
Jun 17, 12:13 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXChambers62 min
Jun 17, 12:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston56 min
Jun 17, 12:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria63 min
Jun 17, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers, Galveston67 min
Jun 17, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWharton66 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.