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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2023, 10:14 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 26, 2023, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Houston County, TX, Madison County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 282 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 Apr 26, 7:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 7:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 26, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Trinity | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 27 min |
| Apr 26, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 9:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Madison | 23 min |
| Apr 26, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Trinity, Walker | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Polk, Trinity | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Walker | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 10:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Houston | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 11:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | San Jacinto | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 11:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Chambers | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 3:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Austin | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 4:06 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 84 min | |
| Apr 27, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Harris | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 4:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Colorado, Wharton | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 4:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 21 min |
| Apr 27, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 65 min | |
| Apr 27, 5:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Chambers | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 5:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Wharton | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 5:35 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 6 hr | |
| Apr 27, 5:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 82 min | |
| Apr 27, 5:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazoria | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 6:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 6:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Wharton | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton | 15 min |
| Apr 27, 7:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 67 min | |
| Apr 27, 9:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 29 min | |
| Apr 27, 12:04 PM CDT | Rip Current Statement | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda | 7 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.