Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2001, 2:57 PM CST for Madison County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
- Feb 26, 2001, 2:57 PM CST (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Madison County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 2226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KHGX 262058 SVRHOU TXC313-262130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 257 PM CST MON FEB 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 254 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MADISON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...MIDWAY. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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 3092 9615 3088 9603 3107 9575 3115 9587
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 Feb 26, 2:35 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 2:35 PM CST, 22 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 235 PM CST MON FEB 26 2001 CLOUDY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THRU THE WEEK WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW MOVING OVERHEAD. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION CONTINUES THRU AT LEAST SAT AS IMPULSES EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW ALOFT MOVE OVER THE AREA. TOUGH TO FORECAST TIMING AND PRECIP COVERAGE IN PATTERNS LIKE THIS SO WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS THRU THE PERIOD. BEST CHANCE LOOKS TO OCCUR IN THE WED/THU TIMEFRAME WHEN COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. AS USUAL, EACH MODEL HAS ITS OWN DIFFERENT SPIN. WILL RIDE WITH ETAS FOR NOW WHICH DEPICTS FROPA AROUND SUNRISE WED NORTH AND LATE AFTN SOUTH. TEMPS COULD BE A BUST IF THIS ISNT THE RIGHT ONE, BUT NEED TO PICK. OVERRUNNING PRECIP SETS UP THU/FRI. QUESTION IS WHEN THE TROF OUT WEST DECIDES TO MOVE. ECMWF/MRF SIMILAR IN BRINGING IT ACROSS THE AREA FRI NT. NOGAPS AND SOME OF THE ENSEMBLES HAVE THE TROF MORE AMPLIFIED AS MOVES ACROSS LATE SAT. WILL KEEP CLOUDS IN THE FCST TILL SUNDAY AND INTRODUCE PC CONDITIONS MONDAY. .KHGX...NONE. 47/31/43/DO PRELIMS... CLL EC 062/078 060/060 048 445 IAH EC 065/079 066/071 050 344 GLS EE 068/075 069/074 057 233
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 1:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 42 min |
| Feb 26, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.