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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

January 22, 1998Jackson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1998, 9:05 AM CST for Jackson County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
Jan 22, 1998, 9:05 AM CST (15:05 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 1998, 10:00 AM CST
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1998-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

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 Jan 22, 2:38 AM CST, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 2:38 AM CST, 6 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 21, 6:07 PM CSTTornado WarningHGXMatagorda, Wharton68 min
Jan 21, 6:18 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXGrimes, Walker2 hr
Jan 21, 6:21 PM CSTTornado WarningHGXGrimes, Montgomery49 min
Jan 21, 6:29 PM CSTTornado WarningHGXSan Jacinto, Walker61 min
Jan 21, 6:33 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXFort Bend3 hr
Jan 21, 6:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria, Harris64 min
Jan 21, 6:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk62 min
Jan 21, 7:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers62 min
Jan 21, 8:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston61 min
Jan 21, 8:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria65 min
Jan 21, 8:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers, Liberty65 min
Jan 21, 8:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston, Harris62 min
Jan 21, 9:34 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers3 hr
Jan 21, 9:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers35 min
Jan 21, 9:51 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXHarris3 hr
Jan 21, 10:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris33 min
Jan 21, 10:36 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers64 min
Jan 21, 10:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers64 min
Jan 21, 10:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers67 min
Jan 22, 12:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers, Harris4 hr
Jan 22, 4:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.