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Special Weather Statement, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

July 12, 2021San Jacinto County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 12, 2021, 9:08 AM CDT for San Jacinto County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 12, 2021, 9:08 AM CDT (14:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2021, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

County San Jacinto County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 2909 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 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 Jul 12, 6:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 6:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 9:08 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
908 AM CDT Mon Jul 12 2021

TXZ164-177>179-121445-
San Jacinto TX-Walker TX-Polk TX-Trinity TX-
908 AM CDT Mon Jul 12 2021

...Strong Thunderstorms Moving From Walker County into San Jacinto
County...

At 907 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles west of Point Blank, or 13 miles east of Huntsville, moving
northeast at 25 mph.

Winds to about 40 mph will be possible with the strongest part of
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Onalaska, Point Blank and Oakhurst.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3065 9549 3076 9542 3092 9516 3069 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 1407Z 244DEG 24KT 3071 9533

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	39 min
Jul 11, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	51 min
Jul 11, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	47 min
Jul 12, 8:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Madison	3 hr
Jul 12, 9:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Walker	117 min
Jul 12, 9:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	San Jacinto	39 min
Jul 12, 10:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty, Polk, San Jacinto	48 min
Jul 12, 11:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Madison	3 hr
Jul 12, 11:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Houston	3 hr
Jul 12, 12:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazos	59 min
Jul 12, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	18 min
Jul 12, 1:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazos, Grimes	110 min
Jul 12, 1:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Montgomery, Walker	12 min
Jul 12, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Montgomery, San Jacinto, Waller	41 min
Jul 12, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	39 min
Jul 12, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris	47 min
Jul 12, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Chambers, Fort Bend	59 min

Nearby

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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.