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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2023, 6:23 PM CDT for 8 counties in 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
- Apr 28, 2023, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 28, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 6:04 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:04 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:40 AM CDT | Gale Watch | HGX | 12 hr | |
| Apr 28, 3:44 PM CDT | Gale Warning | HGX | 28 hr | |
| Apr 28, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 20 min |
| Apr 28, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison, Washington | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Grimes, Waller and 1 more | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Houston, Madison, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Trinity and 1 more | 41 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.