Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2001, 12:59 AM CST for Burleson 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2001, 12:59 AM CST (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2001, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Burleson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
827 WUUS54 KHGX 160700 SVRHOU TXC051-160745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1259 AM CST FRI NOV 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BURLESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 145 AM CST * AT 100 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LYONS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... LYONS SNOOK MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRIEFLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. 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. LAT...LON 3038 9678 3028 9669 3047 9634 3063 9651
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 Nov 15, 8:15 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 8:15 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
815 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001
KCRP SOUNDING THIS EVENING SHOWS A LOT OF ENERGY...CAPES AT 3500
J/KG AND T/DP PROFILE SHOWS RAPID DRYING ABOVE 700 MB. SATELLITE
IMAGERY ALONG W/LIGHTING DENSITY TRENDS WOULD INDICATE A SLOW SHIFT
OF CONVECTION EASTWARD. STRONG CLUSTER OF TSTMS JUST WEST OF
BURLESON COUNTY WHILE LARGE SUPERCELL ONLY ABOUT A COUNTY AWAY FROM
JACKSON COUNTY. FORECAST ON TRACK W/HIGHER POPS WESTERN ZONES AND
MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERE CONVECTION. DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN IN THE
MID 60S INLAND AREAS EXCEPT FAR NW SECTIONS WHERE IT WILL BE
SLIGHTLY LOWER. WILL MAKE SLIGHT UPWARD ADJUSTMENT IN MINS FOR
TONIGHT. PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS TIGHTENED...HENCE WILL INCREASE WIND
SPEEDS ESPECIALLY FOR COASTAL AREAS. WILL INCREASE SCA COVERAGE TO
INCLUDE ALL OF COASTAL WATERS. CONTINUE SCEC FOR BAYS.
.HGX...TORNADO WATCH TIL 11PM FOR WASHINGTON...AUSTIN...
COLORADO...WHARTON...AND JACKSON COUNTIES.
SCEC BAYS...SCA GULF WATERS 0-60 NM.
37/45
PRELIMS...
CLL EB 063/076 057/074 052 644
IAH EB 062/077 055/076 053 332
GLS BB 068/075 063/073 062 322Nearby
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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.