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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 5, 2004Harris County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 7:18 PM CDT for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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 5, 2004, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harris County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 331 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 2004-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1166 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 2004-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
1166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 5, 6:55 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:55 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
328 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004

TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-061200-
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-
328 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING
SEVERE THIS EVENING...

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS MUCH OF THE
SOUTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP FROM NEAR GALVESTON BAY WEST TOWARDS EL CAMPO AS
THE SEABREEZE MOVES INLAND AND COLLIDES WITH LIGHTER WINDS ASSOCIATED
THE REMAINS OF THE MORNING STORMS INLAND. STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE
VERY SLOW MOVING AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAINFALL. ACCUMULATIONS
OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. A SECOND AREA OF STORMS WILL
DEVELOP MORE SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE COLLEGE STATION AREA AND
MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA. THE GREATER THREAT FROM THESE
STORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL.

 IF ANY SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL
WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY DUE TO A MOIST
AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS...WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES AND INCREASING
TROPICAL MOISTURE MOVING NORTHWARD OUT OF THE GULF. NO HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.