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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 14, 2007Harris County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2007, 3:44 PM CDT for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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, 2007, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2007, 4:29 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harris County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2007-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 614 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2007-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
614 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, 3:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 5:49 AM CDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
549 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-151200-
AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-
GALVESTON-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA-
MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON-
WHARTON-
549 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...MAINLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SEA BREEZE. THERE IS A
SLIGHT CHANCE OF AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM BETWEEN 4 AND 8 PM WITH
THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAY TWO...TUESDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS
TIME.

.DAY THREE...WEDNESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF A
WEAKENING COLD FRONT WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THERE IS
A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

DAYS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
RETURN BY SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING PERIOD TODAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers35 min
May 14, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria, Galveston47 min
May 14, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris21 min
May 14, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris40 min
May 14, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris, Montgomery45 min
May 14, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty42 min
May 14, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk, Trinity43 min
May 14, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery50 min
May 14, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk39 min
May 14, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXTrinity23 min
May 14, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007Every 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.