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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

September 29, 2006Wharton County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 2006, 4:13 PM CDT for Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
Sep 29, 2006, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 2006, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wharton County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3367 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.4

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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.