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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2008, 4:19 PM CDT for Liberty County, Montgomery County, San Jacinto County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 25, 2008, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Liberty County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 25, 3:41 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:41 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 9:34 AM CDT, 6 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 934 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2008 GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226- 227-235>238-260500- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GALVESTON BAY-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY- MADISON-MATAGORDA-MATAGORDA BAY-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO- TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO FREEPORT OUT 20 NM-WHARTON- 934 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE REGION FROM THIS MORNING INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. RAINFALL TOTALS SHOULD AVERAGE AROUND HALF AN INCH WITH BUT SOME LOCATIONS COULD RECEIVE UP TO AN INCH WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ALSO FAVOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATERSPOUTS AND FUNNEL CLOUDS THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED MAINLY DAYTIME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INCREASES FROM THE GULF. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 57 min | |
| Jun 25, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 21 min |
| Jun 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery, San Jacinto | 23 min |
| Jun 25, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, Trinity | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.