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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 14, 2006Trinity County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2006, 8:14 AM CDT for Trinity 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
May 14, 2006, 8:14 AM CDT (13:14 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2006, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Trinity County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 14, 5:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2006-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1292 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2006-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
1292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.3

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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 May 14, 3:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 7:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston50 min
May 14, 8:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk43 min
May 14, 8:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXTrinity22 min
May 14, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMadison39 min
May 14, 1:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGrimes43 min
May 14, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMadison, Walker26 min
May 14, 1:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris54 min
May 14, 1:46 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX59 min
May 14, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery67 min
May 14, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria46 min
May 14, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston48 min
May 14, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWharton31 min
May 14, 2:46 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX89 min
May 14, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris60 min
May 14, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria29 min
May 14, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria44 min
May 14, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris33 min
May 14, 4:11 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX2 hr
May 14, 4:16 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX83 min
May 14, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria25 min
May 14, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMatagorda54 min
May 14, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria30 min
May 14, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMatagorda61 min
May 14, 5:19 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX116 min
May 14, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningHGX51 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.