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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

August 2, 2005Grimes County, Washington County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2005, 4:44 PM CDT for Grimes County, Washington County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
Aug 2, 2005, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grimes County, TX, Washington County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 289 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2005-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 954 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2005-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
954 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty28 min
Aug 2, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.