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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2010, 11:30 AM CDT for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 17 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 10, 2010, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2010, 11:47 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Houston County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 996 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 10, 11:18 AM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 11:18 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 515 AM CDT THU JUN 10 2010 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>198-111300- BRAZOS-BURLESON-GRIMES-HOUSTON-MADISON-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY- WALKER-WASHINGTON- 515 AM CDT THU JUN 10 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING FLOODING RAINFALL WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM COLLEGE STATION TO LIVINGSTON. OTHERWISE...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO FLOOD OVER LOCATIONS THAT EXPERIENCED FLOODING RAINFALL ON THURSDAY. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK FOR STRONG STORMS GENERATING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO END LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED TODAY. GMZ330-335-TXZ199-200-210>214-226-227-235>238-111300- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GALVESTON- GALVESTON BAY-HARRIS-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MATAGORDA-MATAGORDA BAY- MONTGOMERY-WALLER-WHARTON- 515 AM CDT THU JUN 10 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR GENERATING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK OF STRONG STORMS GENERATING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER STORMS. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY AROUND SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:57 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 11:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Houston | 111 min |
| Jun 10, 1:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Houston | 115 min |
| Jun 10, 10:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 11:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Houston | 24 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.