Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2000, 11:21 PM CST for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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
- Feb 22, 2000, 11:21 PM CST (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleson County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KHGX 230522 SVRHOU TXC051-230600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1121 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BURLESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST * AT 1120 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHRIESMAN TO 8 MILES WEST OF CHRIESMAN TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHRIESMAN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDE... CHRIESMAN CALDWELL SNOOK STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 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. $$
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 Feb 22, 8:40 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 8:40 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 840 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 SQUALL LINE MAKING STEADY PROGRESS AND HAS NEARLY REACHED A LINE FROM FTW TO BMQ TO SE OF JCT. THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE WILL PROBABLY SLOW A LITTLE AND SHOULD GET INTO THE NW CWA BETWEEN 630 AND 730Z. WILL NOT RULE OUT SEVERE WEATHER. ENVIORNMENT OVER SETX WHEN THEY ARRIVE WILL BE RICH WITH THE MOISTURE ALTHOUGH THE LL DIRECTIONAL SHEAR WILL BE DECREASING AND THE CAP PER CRP SOUNDING IS FAIRLY SUBSTANCIAL. RUC INDICATES STRONG DIVG ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE WINDMAX AROUND 9Z ADDING TO THE VENTILATION. WILL REISSUE ZFP ALTHOUGH ANY CHANGES WILL BE COSMETIC ANS WELL AS WITH CWF. 45/32/BT .HGX...NONE PRELIMS... CLL EB 056/075 055/075 062 42620 IAH EB 061/076 061/077 064 42520 GLS EB 064/073 064/073 065 42420
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 8:55 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-231200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 855 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10. HOWEVER...THE PRIMARY RISK AREA IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BRENHAM TO CONROE TO LIVINGSTON. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND THE DRY LINE JOINED FORCES TO DEVELOP A SQUALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED INTO THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. THE SQUALL LINE IS FORECAST TO MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST...ARRIVING IN NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AROUND 1 AM AND CENTRAL PORTIONS AROUND 4 AM. WEAK TO MODERATE WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY INDICATE THAT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS...STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING TO LOCATIONS OUTSIDE OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY...NORTHERN HALF OF TEXAS...AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 10:07 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
TXZ176-195>198-230900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1007 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...GRIMES...WASHINGTON...BURLESON...BRAZOS...AND MADISON AND WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING. A SQUALL LINE WILL MOVE INTO BURLESON COUNTY AROUND 11 PM...AND SHOULD REACH A LINE FROM NEAR MADISONVILLE TO BRYAN COLLEGE STATION TO LAKE SOMERVILLE AROUND 1230 AM. THE SQUALL LINE HAS HISTORY OF STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. WEAK TO MODERATE WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY INDICATE THAT DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. STAY TUNED TBO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS...STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 46 min |
| Feb 23, 6:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 31 min |
| Feb 23, 7:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 36 min |
| Feb 23, 7:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.