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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

December 13, 2022Houston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 13, 2022, 2:23 PM CST for Houston 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 13, 2022, 2:23 PM CST (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Dec 13, 2022, 3:00 PM CST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Houston County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Dec 13, 9:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2022-12-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2022-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 296 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
373 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 13, 3:50 AM CSTRip Current StatementHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Matagorda14 hr
Dec 13, 3:20 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHGXSan Jacinto25 min
Dec 13, 3:23 PM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryHGX24 hr
Dec 13, 3:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk, Trinity34 min
Dec 13, 3:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers, Liberty35 min
Dec 13, 4:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston25 min
Dec 13, 5:14 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHGXHouston31 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.