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Special Weather Statement, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 28, 2016Houston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2016, 3:11 PM CDT for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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: Jun 28, 2016, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

County Houston County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 28, 2:48 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:48 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 2:50 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 1:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
127 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0120 PM     MARINE TSTM WIND 1 SW TAYLOR LAKE VILLAG 29.56N  95.07W
06/28/2016  M41 MPH          HARRIS             TX   MESONET

            36 KNOT...42 MPH... WIND RECORDED AT CLEAR LAKE.

&&

EVENT NUMBER HGX1600239

DCH

Local storm report, Jun 28, 1:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
135 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0133 PM     MARINE TSTM WIND 1 SW TAYLOR LAKE VILLAG 29.56N  95.07W
06/28/2016  M54 MPH          HARRIS             TX   MESONET

            47 KNOT...54 MPH... WIND GUST AT CLEAR LAKE.

&&

EVENT NUMBER HGX1600240

DCH

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 2:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:50 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:11 PM CDT, 0 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
Jun 27, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Montgomery	56 min
Jun 28, 12:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		40 min
Jun 28, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazos	59 min
Jun 28, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Montgomery	39 min
Jun 28, 12:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Montgomery	38 min
Jun 28, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Grimes	61 min
Jun 28, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Waller, Washington	48 min
Jun 28, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		62 min
Jun 28, 1:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Grimes	2 hr
Jun 28, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	42 min
Jun 28, 1:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Galveston, Harris	3 hr
Jun 28, 1:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Galveston, Harris	2 hr
Jun 28, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Austin, Chambers, Harris, Waller, Washington	28 min
Jun 28, 2:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes	2 hr
Jun 28, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		91 min
Jun 28, 2:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	2 hr
Jun 28, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris	37 min
Jun 28, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Madison	55 min
Jun 28, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Jackson, Wharton	81 min
Jun 28, 3:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris	2 hr
Jun 28, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	San Jacinto, Trinity	54 min
Jun 28, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Walker	43 min
Jun 28, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty	41 min
Jun 28, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria	43 min
Jun 28, 4:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	San Jacinto, Walker	3 hr
Jun 28, 4:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Liberty	3 hr

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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.