Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2000, 10:09 PM CST for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2000, 10:09 PM CST (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Houston County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 10:20 PM CST | Hail 1 | Grapeland, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1118 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KHGX 170411 SVRHOU TXC225-170500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1009 PM CST THU MAR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 1006 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF GRAPELAND...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... GRAPELAND WECHES MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LARGE HAIL 3/4 INCH DIAMETER OR LARGER IS LIKELY WITH THIS STqORM. 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 3155 9566 3138 9558 3157 9496 3180 9507
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 Mar 16, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 830 PM CST THU MAR 16 2000 LRG PORTION OF CWA UNDER SVR WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT. FNT JUST NW OF CWA. QUICK GLANCE AT THE NEW ETA SHOWS IT RACING THRU AREA AT A PRETTY GOOD CLIP OVERNIGHT. PRESSURES ARE STG BEHIND IT...THIS SOLN IS ACCEPTED AND IN LINE WITH CURR FCST. SHARP TEMP CONTRAST ALG FNT. WILL LOWER MINS A BIT NW. TEMPS IN THE 40S NOT TOO FAdR AWAY. OTRW...ZONES WILL REMAIN INTACT. WILL REFRESH WATCH INFO WITH NEW ISSUANCE. .KHGX...NONE. 46/37/35/33 PRELIMS CLL RE 048/059 046/065 046 773 IAH RE 054/063 050/065 049 663 GLS RE 063/065 057/067 059 554
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 8:05 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
GMZ330-TXZ163-164-176>178-195>199-210>213-226-227-235>237-170600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 805 PM CST THU MAR 16 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH MIDNIGHT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MOST OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...INCLUDING BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION AND THE HOUSTON METROPOLITAN AREA. GALVESTON... CHAMBERS...LIBERTY...AND POLK COUNTIES ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. A BAND OF SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CALDWELL TO GONZALES WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT WHICH IS APPROACHING SOUTHEAST TEXAS. GIVEN THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE WATCH AREA...A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. STAYED TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS THIS EVENING. 35
Local storm report, Mar 16, 8:41 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
841 PM CST THU MAR 16 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0736 PM DEANVILLE TX .88 INCH HAIL
03/16/00 BURLESON HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Washington | 60 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.