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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 15, 2001Polk County, Trinity County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 1:26 AM CDT for Polk County, Trinity County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 15, 2001, 1:26 AM CDT (06:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2001, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Polk County, TX, Trinity County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3133 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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 Jun 14, 11:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 11:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1120 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

LN SEEMS TO BE HOLDING TOGETHER NICELY AS IT PROGRESSES SOUTHWARD.
WILL ISSUE AND UPDATE AND INCR POPS FOR NRN ZONES OVERNIGHT.

46/45/DH

.KHGX...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY ALL WATERS.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 10:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>213-227-151430-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1006 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

...HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE FRIDAY...

AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL
SWING SLOWLY EAST OVERNIGHT AND THEN NORTHEAST TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES
REGION. SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DRAW GULF MOISTURE OVER THE AREA
TONIGHT AND WILL BE IN PLACE AS A DISTURBANCE IN THE SUBTROPICAL
JETSTREAM MOVES STEADILY EAST FROM CENTRAL TEXAS OVERNIGHT AND
INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS FRIDAY MORNING. THIS SHOULD HELP TO SET THE STAGE
FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AS DAYTIME HEATING ERODES THE
WEAK CAP OF WARM AIR ALOFT OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF LAYING DOWN 2 TO 3 INCH PER HOUR
RAINFALL RATES. ISOLATED ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL BE
POSSIBLE...MAINLY NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 10 CORRIDOR.  A WEAK COLD
FRONT MAY REACH INTO AREAS ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR WACO TO CROCKETT
TO LUFKIN...THIS AREA MAY HAVE A GREATER CHANCE OF SEEING THE HEAVY
RAINFALL.

IN ADDITION THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
ISOLATED MICROBURSTS.>..SMALL SHORT LIVED POSSIBLY DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS.

CHECK BACK WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS SOURCES FOR THE
LATEST STATEMENTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

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.