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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

December 29, 2022Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 29, 2022, 3:52 PM CST for Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 29, 2022, 3:52 PM CST (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Dec 29, 2022, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Burleson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 331 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: 740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Dec 29, 11:58 AM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 29, 11:58 AM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 29, 3:02 PM CST, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 29, 3:47 PM CST, 5 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
Dec 28, 8:56 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	HGX		12 hr
Dec 29, 8:47 AM CST	Rip Current Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda	10 hr
Dec 29, 3:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty	28 min
Dec 29, 3:36 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		39 min
Dec 29, 3:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Burleson	28 min
Dec 29, 5:26 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Burleson	34 min
Dec 29, 5:56 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		34 min
Dec 29, 5:56 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	HGX		6 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.