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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2010, 5:56 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 24, 2010, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Wharton | 58 min |
| Aug 23, 7:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 58 min |
| Aug 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 96 min | |
| Aug 23, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 51 min |
| Aug 23, 9:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 66 min | |
| Aug 24, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 115 min | |
| Aug 24, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Walker | 67 min |
| Aug 24, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Wharton | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Austin | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Chambers | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda, Wharton | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 58 min | |
| Aug 24, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Waller | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 68 min | |
| Aug 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton | 58 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.