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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 2, 2004Polk County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 10:56 PM CDT for Polk County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Polk County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 2, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

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 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston52 min
Jun 2, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Trinity57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.