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Special Weather Statement, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

August 26, 2014Jackson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 26, 2014, 1:21 PM CDT for Jackson County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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: Aug 26, 2014, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2014, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

County Jackson County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1842 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Chambers	67 min
Aug 25, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		91 min
Aug 25, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty	39 min
Aug 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Galveston	74 min
Aug 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		93 min
Aug 25, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	46 min
Aug 25, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		87 min
Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend	60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2014 Every special weather statement 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.