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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 2, 2004Houston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 9:38 PM CDT for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 2, 2004, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Houston County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2004-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2641 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2004-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1343 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.2

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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 2, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 7:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
720 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-031200-
AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GALVESTON-
GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA-MONTGOMERY-
POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON-WHARTON-
720 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
TONIGHT...

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO
THE AREA FROM NORTH TEXAS. EXPECT THIS LINE OF STORMS TO BE SITUATED
FROM ROUGHLY CROCKETT TO COLLEGE STATION TOWARD 11 PM AND OFF THE
COAST AFTER 2 AM. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE STRONG
DAMAGING WINDS AS THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. HAIL IS ALSO A SECONDARY
THREAT. RESIDENTS SHOULD SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR FURNITURE OR OTHER
OBJECTS THIS EVENING IF POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL LIKELY GENERATE SIMILAR THUNDERSTORM
COMPLEXES TO OUR NORTH DURING THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. SOME OF THESE
THE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO MOVE SOUTH AND INTO SOUTHEAST
TEXAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Trinity57 min
Jun 2, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk64 min
Jun 2, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMadison, San Jacinto, Walker63 min
Jun 3, 12:50 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX2 hr
Jun 3, 1:44 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.