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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 12, 1999Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 1999, 9:45 PM CST for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
Mar 12, 1999, 9:45 PM CST (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Mar 12, 1999, 10:15 PM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burleson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 12, 10:00 PM CSTHail 0.75Caldwell, 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 268 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 1999-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1999-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 9:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson40 min
Mar 12, 9:20 PM CSTTornado WarningHGXPolk40 min
Mar 12, 9:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson, Washington50 min
Mar 12, 10:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Grimes, Washington50 min
Mar 12, 10:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMadison50 min
Mar 12, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Madison, Walker45 min
Mar 12, 11:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto, Trinity45 min
Mar 13, 12:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk, Trinity35 min
Mar 13, 12:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto, Walker36 min
Mar 13, 1:34 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery26 min
Mar 13, 1:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris45 min
Mar 13, 1:59 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXHarris31 min
Mar 13, 2:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty42 min
Mar 13, 2:05 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXPolk50 min
Mar 13, 2:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery26 min
Mar 13, 2:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris45 min
Mar 13, 2:37 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHGXPolk3 hr
Mar 13, 2:37 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXLiberty23 min
Mar 13, 2:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers, Liberty49 min
Mar 13, 3:08 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXLiberty37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.