Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2005, 2:25 PM CDT for Harris County, Montgomery County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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 15, 2005, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2005, 2:49 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harris County, TX, Montgomery County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 312 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
- 395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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.