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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

September 8, 2001Polk County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2001, 5:23 PM CDT for Polk County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
Sep 8, 2001, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Polk County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Sep 8, 2:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.