Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2000, 12:05 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 8, 2000, 12:05 AM CDT (05:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Caney, TX | Tree down on FM 1485. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 803 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
087 WUUS54 KHGX 080505 SVRHOU TXC339-080600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1205 AM CDT SAT APR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT MIDNIGHT CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORTER HEIGHTS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... NEW CANEY PORTER 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 Apr 7, 8:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 8:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
830 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2000
FRONT AT 8 PM WAS ROUGHLY ALONG A KTXK-KTYR-KGRK-KJCT LINE. TSTMS IN
NE TX ALONG THE FRONT CURRENTLY APPROACHING NE ZONES. THESE SHOULD
STAY ALIVE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN WITH
THE LOSS OF HEATING & WILL BE APPROACHING A CAPPED ATMOS VIA LCH
SOUNDING. TSTMS IN THE HILL COUNRTY ASSOCIATED WITH INTERSECTION OF
DRY LINE & THE FRONT & SHOULD CONTINUE ON A SWD TRACK. DONT HAVE
MUCH NEW DATA TO LOOK AT OTHER THAT 00Z SOUNDINGS AND 18Z MESO-ETA
WHICH ALSO SHOWS A LOT OF LIFT ALONG THE FRONT. LOOKING AT THE LCH
SOUNDING ITS GONNA HAVE A HARD TIME BUSTING THE CAP WHERE ITS NOT
ALREADY GOING...BUT STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. WILL ONLY BUMP
POPS UP A CAT NE ZONES OTHERWISE LET THE CURRENT ZONES RIDE FOR THE
TIME BEING...BUT WILL PROBABLY NEED TO BE UPDATED LATER TONIGHT
(REMOVING POPS).
47/38/TOM
.KHGX...SVR WATCH 162 NE COS TIL MIDNIGHT
SCA BAYS AND COASTAL WATERS 0-60NM LATE TONIGHT AND SAT
WIND ADVZY ALL COAST ZNS (INCL HARRIS) TONIGHT AND SAT
PRELIMS...
NE UU 044/067 042/072 049 600
CLL UU 044/068 042/073 049 300
IAH UU 049/070 044/072 051 300
GLS UU 056/068 052/071 056 300
SW UU 056/070 052/072 056 300In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 7, 8:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-198-199-080500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 855 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2000 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PARTS OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PARTS OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE IN THE WATCH AREA... SAN JACINTO... WALKER... HOUSTON... POLK MONTGOMERY... MADISON... GRIMES... GRIMES... AND TRINITY. THE CITIES OF CROCKETT... LIVINGSTON... GROVETON... COLDSPRING... HUNTSVILLE... ANDERSON... AND MADISONVILLE ARE IN THE WATCH AREA. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A COLD FRONT WAS APPROACHING THE ANDERSON/HOUSTON COUNTY LINE AT 845 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL... AND LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH HOUSTON COUNTY BETWEEN 9 AND 1030 PM AND POSSIBLY INTO TRINITY COUNTY. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IF NOT IMMINENT IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 54 min |
| Apr 7, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison | 68 min |
| Apr 7, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 68 min |
| Apr 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Walker | 43 min |
| Apr 7, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, Trinity | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 54 min |
| Apr 8, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.