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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2014, 4:27 AM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 28, 2014, 4:27 AM CDT (09:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2014, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Austin County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harris County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 4165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 Apr 28, 4:21 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 4:21 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 317 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>213-226-227-282030- AUSTIN-BRAZOS-BURLESON-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON- LIBERTY-MADISON-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER- WASHINGTON-WHARTON- 317 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WE WILL BE MONITORING THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS GENERALLY NORTH OF A COLLEGE STATION TO HUNTSVILLE TO LIVINGSTON LINE TODAY. A WARM LAYER OF AIR ALOFT...OR CAP...WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT LIMITING FACTOR. ANY ISOLATED STRONG CELLS THAT DO MANAGE TO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-TXZ214-235>238-282030- BRAZORIA-CHAMBERS-GALVESTON-GALVESTON BAY-JACKSON-MATAGORDA- 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- 317 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS NEAR THE COAST WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 7 PM THIS AFTERNOON. ELEVATED WINDS AND SEAS WILL PERSIST TODAY AND SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. HIGHER SURF WILL POSE AN INCREASED RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY ALSO BE REQUIRED IN THE WAKE OF A PASSING COLD FRONT TUESDAY NIGHT WITH MODERATE NORTHERLY WINDS IN ITS WAKE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 1:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Washington | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Waller | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 1:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 2:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston, Madison | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 4:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Polk, Trinity, Walker | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 4:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Walker | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 5:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Polk | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014
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.