Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 2, 1999Trinity County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1999, 6:05 PM CDT for Trinity County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
May 2, 1999, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1999, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Trinity County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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
May 2, 6:16 PM CDTHail 1.75Apple Spgs, TX
May 2, 6:24 PM CDTHail 1Glendale, 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 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
May 2, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston65 min
May 2, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXJackson36 min
May 2, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWharton30 min
May 2, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk, Trinity60 min
May 2, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMatagorda, Wharton43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.