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Special Weather Statement, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this special weather statement at Jan 24, 2012, 2:05 PM CST for Polk County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2012, 2:05 PM CST (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2012, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
County Polk County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 347 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 24, 12:15 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 12:15 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 642 AM CST TUE JAN 24 2012 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-251245- 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- 642 AM CST TUE JAN 24 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG WARM AIR AND MOISTURE ADVECTION FROM THE GULF WILL PRODUCE SHOWERS TODAY. AS THE AIR MASS BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE LIKELY TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT STRONG WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS WEDNESDAY MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. STRONG LOW-LEVEL WIND SHEAR WILL GENERATE AN ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS IN STORMS OCCURRING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE LINE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES FOR THE ENTIRE EVENT ARE POSSIBLE. HOWEVER...ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO FIVE INCHES MAY OCCUR OVER LOCATIONS WHICH EXPERIENCE TRAINING OF STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-251245- GALVESTON BAY-MATAGORDA BAY- 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- 642 AM CST TUE JAN 24 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PATCHY SEA FOG REDUCING THE VISIBILITY TO UNDER 1 NM IS POSSIBLE LATER THIS MORNING OVER THE BAYS AND NEARSHORE WATERS AS A WARM FRONT MOVES INLAND. THE FOG MAY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ISOLATED STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES OFF THE COAST. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS ARE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED WATERSPOUTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED WEDNESDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 12:10 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 24, 9:49 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 38 hr | |
| Jan 24, 12:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 65 min |
| Jan 24, 12:32 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazos | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 5:44 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 8 days |
| Jan 24, 5:47 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | HGX | 8 days |
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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.