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Special Weather Statement, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 3, 2021Harris County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2021, 6:06 PM CDT for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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 3, 2021, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2021, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

County Harris County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 287 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: 2599 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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 3, 4:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:50 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:06 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 2, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Burleson	29 min
Jun 2, 7:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Burleson	46 min
Jun 2, 7:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris	3 hr
Jun 2, 8:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	36 min
Jun 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	47 min
Jun 2, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		63 min
Jun 2, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Chambers, Galveston, Harris	29 min
Jun 2, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Chambers	46 min
Jun 2, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		19 min
Jun 2, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Washington	44 min
Jun 2, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Waller	52 min
Jun 2, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Washington	37 min
Jun 2, 11:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Waller	3 hr
Jun 2, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Washington	52 min
Jun 2, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Waller, Washington	62 min
Jun 3, 12:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Washington	3 hr
Jun 3, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Waller, Washington	35 min
Jun 3, 12:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Austin, Waller, Washington	3 hr
Jun 3, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend	45 min
Jun 3, 1:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Burleson, Lee	55 hr
Jun 3, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	27 min
Jun 3, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris, Liberty	45 min
Jun 3, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Washington	40 min
Jun 3, 2:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Colorado	118 min
Jun 3, 2:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	4 hr
Jun 3, 3:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Liberty, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 3, 4:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Austin, Harris, Waller, Washington	116 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Walker, Waller and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 3, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Walker	25 min
Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris, Waller	3 hr
Jun 3, 6:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Harris	27 hr
Jun 3, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Walker	33 min
Jun 3, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		39 min
Jun 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Walker	60 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.