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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

February 10, 2013Houston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 2013, 6:44 AM CST for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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
Feb 10, 2013, 6:44 AM CST (12:44 UTC)
Expired
Feb 10, 2013, 7:30 AM CST
In force
46 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 12:48 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 10, 1:33 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2013-02-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 323 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2013-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 384 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
384 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
448 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
5.7

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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 Feb 10, 5:51 AM CST, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 5:51 AM CST, 53 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 10, 5:58 AM CST, 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
558 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013

TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-111200-
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-
558 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY AND THIS
FEATURE WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF
THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES...MAINLY NORTH OF A CALDWELL TO LIVINGSTON LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE
ACTIVATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 6:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston28 min
Feb 10, 7:04 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHGXHouston, Madison26 min
Feb 10, 8:57 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHGXPolk48 min
Feb 10, 9:31 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk14 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.