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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 14, 2004Fort Bend County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2004, 2:42 PM CDT for Fort Bend County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 14, 2004, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2004, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fort Bend County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 252 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 14, 10:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 10:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria	46 min
Jun 14, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Matagorda	27 min
Jun 14, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Jackson	38 min
Jun 14, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		67 min
Jun 14, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Matagorda	44 min
Jun 14, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Jackson	2 hr
Jun 14, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Jackson	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004 Every 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.