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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2004, 3:14 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brazoria County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 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
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, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 311 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004 .DISCUSSION... WATER VAPOR SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS A VERY IMPRESSIVE MID/UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVING SOUTHWARD ALONG THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP WITHIN THE PAST HOUR ALONG THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE LOW...MAINLY WEST OF I-45. EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS DURING THE REMAINING AFTERNOON HOURS AND ON INTO THIS EVENING. SLOW STORM MOTION...DEEP MOISTURE LEVELS AND HIGH INSTABILITIES MAY LEAD TOWARD SOME ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. FUTURE LOCATION AND MOVEMENT OF THE LOW WILL DICTATE WHICH PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS WILL RECEIVE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. MODELS MOVE THIS LOW BACK TO THE NORTH ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY TOWARD NORTH TEXAS AND ELONGATE IT. IF THE LOW ENDS UP TO OUR WEST...WE COULD SEE SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS THE BEST INFLOW OFF THE GULF TAPS SOME OF THE DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE GULF TROPICAL DISTURBANCE THAT IS NOW SURGING INTO THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN GULF COAST STATES. WILL MAKE VERY FEW CHANGES TO THE HIGH POPS ALREADY IN THE FORECAST. WILL GO AHEAD AND MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE AREAWIDE FOR TUESDAY...TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE WIDESPREAD 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED 5 TO 10 INCH TOTALS THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AGAIN...EXACT LOCATION AND MOVEMENT OF THE LOW WILL DICTATE WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL FALL. WILL CONTINUE THE TREND OF LOWER POPS FRIDAY AND INTO THE WEEKEND AS RIDGING BUILDS ACROSS THE STATE. 42/43 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 73 88 74 88 75 / 30 60 40 60 30 HOUSTON(IAH) 74 87 75 87 75 / 30 60 40 60 30 GALVESTON (GLS) 79 86 79 86 79 / 40 70 40 60 30 &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 7:00 AM CDT, 8 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 33 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
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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.