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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

December 13, 2001Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 13, 2001, 7:03 AM CST for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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: Dec 13, 2001, 7:03 AM CST (13:03 UTC)
Expired: Dec 13, 2001, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Liberty County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Dec 13, 3:15 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 3:15 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:37 AM CST, 2 hours 26 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
Dec 13, 9:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria	42 min
Dec 13, 10:40 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		65 min
Dec 13, 11:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Chambers, Liberty	23 min
Dec 13, 1:14 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		76 min
Dec 13, 1:45 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		2 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.