Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1998, 12:13 AM CDT for Galveston County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 6, 1998, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1998, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Galveston County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 12:45 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Jamaica Beach, TX | |
| Jun 6, 1:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 85 | Galveston, TX | Coast Guard estimated 85 knot winds at the ferry landing. 150 dry dock blew off moorings into a ship. Dredge pipes (75 foot long, 2000-3000 pounds) blown off shore into the water. |
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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 4475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.5
- Supercell composite
- -2.3
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 5, 2:57 PM CDT, 9 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:57 PM CDT, 9 hours 16 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 257 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 CF AT 19Z WAS JUST SOUTH OF A JCT...GRK...TYR LN AND JUST NRTH OF CLL ATTM. RADAR LOOP WITH GRK SHOWS DVLPMNT OUT AHEAD AND BEHIND FNT AS CF IS SHALLOW WITH 85H FNT STILL WELL BACK OVR NRTH TX. WITH STRNG INSTABILITIES OVR FA...EXPECT THREAT OF ELEVATED ACTIVITY BEHIND FNT TO CONT OVR FA THRU TNGT AS WELL. EST TIMING OF SLW MVG CF ATTM IS CLL AREA ARND 21Z-23Z...IAH 23Z-02Z AND NEAR GLS BY ARND 06Z-09Z. ETA IS HINTING AT CF HANGING UP OVR COASTAL COUNTIES BUT APPEARS ENUF PUSH IS PRESENT TO GET IT OFF COAST BY AT LEAST 10Z SAT. THREAT OF SVR WX & LCLY HVY RAIN STILL EXSIST LATE AFTN-TNGT AS AFTN CF...AFTN HTG & WEAK S/WS IN UPR JET ALL TANGLE WITH A VERY MOIST & UNSTABLE SE TX AIRMASS. SUSPECT A 1-2 DEG CAP IS HOLDING LID ON THINGS ATTM...BUT WATCH OUT WHEN THIS GIVES WAY AS CF & OUTFLOWS PUSH INTO AREA. AS FOR RMNG FCST PERIODS...MDLS SHOW HIGH PRES BLDG IN WAKE OF FROPA WITH COOLER/DRIER AIR FILTERING IN ON SAT. PERSISTANT W-E ORIENTED ZONAL UPR JET THRU PERIOD WUD SUGGEST SLOW CLRG...IF ANY... BEHIND FROPA. THEREFORE...WILL BE SLW TO SCT INLAMND ZONES OUT ON SAT AND KEEP MC SKIES IN ALNG COAST TILL SAT NGT. PTLY CLDY AND COOLER ON TAP FOR SUN BUT RIDGE MVS EWD ALLOWING WNDS TO GO EAST ON SUN THEN BACK TO A HUMID SE FLOW BY TUES. LOOKING AT TMPS BEHIND FNT ENCOURAGES ME TO LEAN TWRD COOLER AVN NUMBERS ATTM. 39 PRELIMS... CLL E/E>B B/B 70/85 65/86 7100 IAH E/E>B B/B 72/86 68/86 821- GLS E/E B/B 77/86 74/86 8321
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Wharton | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.