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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

November 21, 2007Brazos County, Grimes County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 21, 2007, 3:37 PM CST for Brazos County, Grimes County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: Nov 21, 2007, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Nov 21, 2007, 4:06 PM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Brazos County, TX, Grimes County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 271 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1524 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 12.8

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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 Nov 21, 11:37 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 21, 11:37 AM CST, 4 hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 21, 1:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk, Trinity	27 min
Nov 21, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty	34 min
Nov 21, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Montgomery	14 min
Nov 21, 5:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.