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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 8, 2006Brazos County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2006, 2:34 AM CDT for Brazos County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
May 8, 2006, 2:34 AM CDT (07:34 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2006, 3:23 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brazos County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:37 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 99 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-302 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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
May 8, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson65 min
May 8, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWashington25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.