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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2016, 4:47 PM CDT for Fort Bend County, Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 12, 2016, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2016, 5:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Fort Bend County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 1793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.4
- Supercell composite
- -2.1
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 12, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 346 PM CDT TUE APR 12 2016 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>199-132100- BRAZOS-BURLESON-GRIMES-HOUSTON-MADISON-MONTGOMERY-POLK- SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WASHINGTON- 346 PM CDT TUE APR 12 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH THE MAIN THREAT STRONG GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH A THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. TXZ200-210>214-226-227-235>238-132100- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GALVESTON-HARRIS- JACKSON-LIBERTY-MATAGORDA-WALLER-WHARTON- 346 PM CDT TUE APR 12 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR ISOLATED STRONG STORMS...WITH THE MAIN THREATS STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY HEAVY RAIN THREAT WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY WITH TOTAL REACHING 1 TO 2 INCHES WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE REGION WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH THE MAIN THREATS STRONG GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-132100- 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- 346 PM CDT TUE APR 12 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AREAS OF FOG AT TIMES DENSE MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY TO LESS THAN 1/2 MILE AT TIMES. FOG WILL LINGER OVER MOST OF THE GULF WATERS THROUGH TONIGHT...WHILE AREAS OF FOG WILL BE MORE COMMON SOUTH OF FREEPORT OUT TO 60 NM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SEA FOG IS EXPECTED TO LINGER OVER THE GULF WATERS ON WEDNESDAY AND MAY LINGER THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:30 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 11:39 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | HGX | 11 hr | |
| Apr 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Wharton | 45 min |
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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.