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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2007, 8:23 PM CDT for Fort Bend County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Mar 13, 2007, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fort Bend County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 Mar 13, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado, Wharton | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 43 min |
| Mar 13, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 28 min |
| Mar 13, 10:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 63 min | |
| Mar 13, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 119 min | |
| Mar 14, 12:51 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 114 min | |
| Mar 14, 1:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 85 min | |
| Mar 14, 2:59 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 91 min | |
| Mar 14, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 40 min |
| Mar 14, 10:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado, Wharton | 43 min |
| Mar 14, 10:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 57 min | |
| Mar 14, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 11:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 45 min | |
| Mar 14, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Washington | 52 min |
| Mar 14, 11:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 12:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 59 min | |
| Mar 14, 12:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 90 min | |
| Mar 14, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Waller, Washington | 56 min |
| Mar 14, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 1:03 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 117 min | |
| Mar 14, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 55 min | |
| Mar 14, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 93 min | |
| Mar 14, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 48 min |
| Mar 14, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 85 min | |
| Mar 14, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 96 min | |
| Mar 14, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 53 min |
| Mar 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 88 min |
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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.