Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2000, 6:44 AM CST for Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 23, 2000, 6:44 AM CST (12:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2000, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:44 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 751 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KHGX 231245 SVRHOU TXC321-231330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 644 AM CST WED FEB 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MATAGORDA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 730 AM CST * AT 634 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAY CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... SOUTH BAY CITY VAN VLECK 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 23, 3:00 AM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 3:00 AM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 3 AM CST WED FEB 23 2000 THE LINE OF SH/TSRAS APPEARS TO HAVE LOST ITS PUNCH THIS MORNING AS THE SHORTWAVE WHICH HELPED TO INTENSIFY THE STORMS BEGINS TO OUTRUN THE LINE. ALL WATCHES/WARNINGS HAVE BEEN CLEARED FOR SE TX. THEREFORE THE FORECAST PROBLEM(S) OF THE DAY THEN BECOMES WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH THIS BOUNDARY AND HOW WILL IT AFFECT CLOUDS/POPS TODAY. AS PER THE MODELS...CLOUDS/PCPN SHOULD STICK AROUND AS A WEAK ISEN- TROPIC LIFT TYPE SCENARIO DEVELOPS ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE BOUNDARY AS DAYTIME HEATING/TROPICAL LIKE AIRMASS AHEAD OF IT WILL ALLOW FOR DECENT CU COVERAGE. ALSO AHEAD OF THIS "FRONT"...THE POSSIBILITY OF LEFTOVER OUTFLOWS IN THE VERY MOIST/MARGINALLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS MAY ALLOW FOR ISOLATED TSRAS GIVEN ENOUGH HEATING AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF OTHER SHORTWAVES IN FLOW ALOFT(ALBEIT SLIM). THUS WILL GO AHEAD AND BLANKET THE FA WITH AT LEAST CHC POPS (30-40) DESPITE THE DIFFERING REASONS. RAIN CHANCES TO DROP TONIGHT AS THE BOUNDARY MOVES BACK TO THE NORTH AND THE GRADIENT RELAXES. PATCHY FOG PROBABLY NOT TOO BAD A BET GIVEN THE EXPECTED RAINS TODAY/DECREASING WINDS. ABOVE NORMAL MAX TEMPS TO RETURN ON THURSDAY. LOOKING AHEAD, THE NEXT PACIFIC SYSTEM (IN A SEEMINGLY LONG LINE OF THEM) WILL BEGIN AFFECTING OUR AREA (AS FAR AS POPS) BY LATE FRIDAY AND INTO SATURDAY. LIKE THIS LAST ONE...THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL LIKELY JUST GLANCE SE TX AS THE BEST DYNAMICS ARE PROGGED TO COME TOGETHER FURTHER NORTH OF THE AREA. 41/46/48 .HGX...NONE PRELIMS... CLL EB 074/058 079/062 079 300 IAH EB 075/061 077/064 078 400 GLS EB 072/0&64 073/065 073 300
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 2:30 AM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ176-195>198-231000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 230 AM CST WED FEB 23 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL EXPIRE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THE WATCH WAS POSTED FOR GRIMES...WASHINGTON ...BURLESON...BRAZOS AND MADISON COUNTIES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL HAS ENDED IN THE WATCH AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 11:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 39 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.