Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 5:40 PM CDT for Fort Bend County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 2, 2000, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fort Bend County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 2977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
824 WUUS54 KHGX 022239 SVRHOU TXC157-022330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 540 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FORT BEND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 540 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF STAFFORD...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... FRESNO...MEADOWS...STAFFORD MISSION BEND...MISSOURI CITY...TOWN WEST SUGAR LAND FIRST COLONY PECAN GROVE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS EXPECT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STRONG SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE... OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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 Aug 2, 2:40 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:40 PM CDT, 3 hours before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 240 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2000 WIDELY SCT SHWRS AND TSTMS OCCURRING ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFT AS A RESULT OF HEATING AND MID-LEVEL SHEAR AXIS OVER AREA. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO LINGER INTO THE EVE HOURS. FOR UPCOMING PACKAGE...HAVE TRENDED FORECAST TOWARD THE ETA MODEL SOLN WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE THE BEST HANDLE ON PW FIELD ASSOCIATED WITH NORTHERN EXTENT OF APPROACHING TROPICAL WAVE. WAVE AXIS WILL MOVE INTO THE BAY OF CAMPECHE TONIGHT AND IS EXPECTED TO BE ALONG THE TX COAST BY FRIDAY MORNING. LIKELY TO SEE A SHARP PW GRADIENT FRI WITH HIGHEST VALUES ALONG IMMEDIATE COAST WITH RELATIVELY DRY AIRMASS STILL OVER NW ZONES. EXPECT BY SATURDAY TO SEE A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHC OF TSTMS FOR FAR INLAND ZONES. AT MID-LEVELS...WEAKNESS WILL REMAIN OVER SE TX AS HIGH TO THE WEST SLOWLY BUILDS EAST ACROSS TEXAS AND BERMUDA HIGH STAYS PUT. THIS MAY CHG BY SUN...BUT FOR NOW WILL KEEP CHC IN THE EXTENDED DUE TO UNCERTAINTY OF EXACT POSITION OF MID-LEVEL RIDGE. MRF SHOWS RIDGE CONTINUING TO PROGRESS EAST AND MERGING WITH BERMUDA HIGH RESULTING IN LARGE FLAT RIDGE OVER SE U.S. WITH SE TX ON SOUTHERN PERIPHERY BY MONDAY. HIGH TEMPS WILL BE ABOVE GUID...ESPECIALLY NW ZONES WHERE SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR IS IN PLACE. .HGX...NONE. 33/40 PRELIMS... CLL BB 072/100 072/099 074 2212 IAH BB 073/096 073/095 075 2223 GLS BB 077/089 079/089 080 2234
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Wharton | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.