Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2001, 3:26 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 4 reports 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
- Mar 14, 2001, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2001, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Wharton County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 3:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearland, TX | Numerous trees and street signs down near County Road 90 and FM 518. |
| Mar 14, 4:19 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Boling, TX | 12 inch diameter tree limb blown down blocking Texas Street. |
| Mar 14, 4:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Boling, TX | Large oak tree blown down in Pyssen Oaks Subdivision off FM 442. |
| Mar 14, 4:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvin, TX | Numerous trees and street signs down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 14, 2:45 PM CST, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 2:45 PM CST, 41 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 245 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 SEVERE WEATHER STEPPING UP AT THIS TIME SO WILL BE BRIEF. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH JUST ISSUED. VERY STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS AND 0-6KM SHEAR OVERCOMING ASSUMED MARGINAL INSTABILITY. WORST STORM MOVING THROUGH THE HOUSTON METRO AREA NEXT 2 HOURS. SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT WITH PRECIP EXITING BEFORE MID EVENING. NEXT WEATHER MAKER DEEPENING SHORT WAVE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST U.S. FRIDAY THEN EAST AGAIN ACROSS TEXAS OVER THE WEEKEND. SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE 12Z AVN FROM 00Z MRF SO CONFIDENCE ON TIMING ETC NOT GREAT. COULD SEE SHOWERS AS EARLY AS SATURDAY WITH BEST CHANCES SUNDAY. IF AVN ON TRACK SYSTEM GOES EAST MONDAY WITH A COUPLE OF NICE DAYS THEREAFTER. MILD WITH NORTHWEST WINDS TOMORROW THEN A BIT COOLER EVEN THOUGH SUNNY FRIDAY AS COLDER SURGE REACHES SOUTH TEXAS. TEMPS STAY ON COOL SIDE RELATIVE TO NORMAL REMAINDER OF THIS FORECAST. WINDS WILL BE UP TOMORROW ON WATERS SO SCA WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED. PROLONGED WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL LOWER TIDES BY TORMORROW AFTERNOON. .KHGX...SCEC 0-60 NM. 30/40/DO PRELIMS... CLL UU 050/072 043/066 300 IAH UU 051/073 044/068 400 GLS UU 058/074 057/070 500
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 47 min |
| Mar 14, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 46 min |
| Mar 14, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 54 min |
| Mar 14, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 61 min |
| Mar 14, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 57 min |
| Mar 14, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 28 min |
| Mar 14, 4:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Galveston | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 38 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.