Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 10:33 PM CDT for Houston County, Trinity 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
- Jun 2, 2004, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2004, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Houston County, TX, Trinity County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 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
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, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 7:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Madison, San Jacinto, Walker | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 12:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 2 hr | |
| Jun 3, 1:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 2 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.