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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 11, 2000Wharton County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 12:01 AM CST for Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2000, 12:01 AM CST (06:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2000, 12:45 AM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wharton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2395 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KHGX 110602
SVRHOU
TXC481-110645-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1201 AM CST SAT MAR 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WHARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1245 AM CST

* AT 1156 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8
  MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...
  LOUISE
  EL CAMPO
  DANEVANG

MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR
BUSINESS.

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.

LAT...LON 2941 9633 2919 9659 2900 9627 2930 9591

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston	40 min
Mar 10, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	40 min
Mar 10, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Madison	40 min
Mar 10, 7:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Burleson	30 min
Mar 10, 7:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Grimes, Walker	31 min
Mar 10, 8:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Burleson, Washington	46 min
Mar 10, 8:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Washington	49 min
Mar 10, 9:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Waller	40 min
Mar 10, 10:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris	52 min
Mar 10, 11:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Montgomery	26 min
Mar 11, 12:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Matagorda	38 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.