Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2000, 2:21 AM CST for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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
- Nov 24, 2000, 2:21 AM CST (08:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2000, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harris County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 2:35 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Pasadena, TX | Tornado touched down near intersection of Preston and Crenshaw. Roof blown off of home in Parkgate subdivision. Roof peeled off large storage building. Damage to windows and trailers at First Presbyterian Church. Fences and trees knocked over on western ed |
| Nov 24, 2:40 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Pasadena, TX | Wind damage near Fairmont Parkway and Country Road. Wall blown off side of strip center with awning blown off gas station. Minor roof damage to a few homes and businesses near the Country Briar subdivision. Numerous trees and fences down in area.A strong co |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 10:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 57 min |
| Nov 24, 1:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 2:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 30 min |
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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.