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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

September 21, 2001Chambers County, Harris County, Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2001, 2:26 PM CDT for Chambers County, Harris County, Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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 21, 2001, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chambers County, TX, Harris County, TX, Liberty County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 21, 9:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 9:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 21, 9:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 20, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Harris	40 min
Sep 21, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty	28 min
Sep 21, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston	24 min
Sep 21, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin	49 min
Sep 21, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Montgomery	46 min
Sep 21, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris	30 min
Sep 21, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Galveston, Harris	29 min
Sep 21, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend	25 min
Sep 21, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston, Harris	45 min
Sep 21, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Chambers, Liberty	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every 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.