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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

January 23, 201423 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this winter storm warning at Jan 23, 2014, 5:42 AM CST for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 23, 2014, 5:00 PM CST. It was in force for 19 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2014, 5:42 AM CST (11:42 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 23, 2014, 5:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 24, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

All 23 counties

Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harris County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1437 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 22, 11:53 PM CST, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 11:53 PM CST, 5 hours 49 minutes before

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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
Jan 22, 9:46 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		18 hr
Jan 23, 4:39 AM CST	Gale Watch	HGX		6 hr
Jan 23, 4:39 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		23 hr
Jan 23, 10:25 AM CST	Wind Advisory	HGX	Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Jackson and 2 more	21 hr
Jan 23, 10:50 AM CST	Gale Warning	HGX		16 hr
Jan 23, 10:50 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		33 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every winter storm 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.