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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 28, 20246 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2024, 1:55 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 50 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: May 28, 2024, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2024, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Harris County, TX, Liberty County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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
May 28, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 4311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.8
Supercell composite: -4.3

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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 May 28, 1:04 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:04 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 11:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 11:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 11:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 12:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 12:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute 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
May 28, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison	63 min
May 28, 11:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazos	22 min
May 28, 11:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Madison	32 min
May 28, 11:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker	32 min
May 28, 11:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Trinity	30 min
May 28, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Montgomery, Walker	30 min
May 28, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HGX	Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker	33 min
May 28, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HGX	Montgomery, Walker	34 min
May 28, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto	55 min
May 28, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Waller, Washington	36 min
May 28, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty, Polk	32 min
May 28, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty	46 min
May 28, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		118 min
May 28, 1:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	5 hr
May 28, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton	29 min
May 28, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston	47 min
May 28, 2:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston, Harris	4 hr
May 28, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria	44 min
May 28, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		115 min
May 28, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Matagorda	43 min
May 28, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		50 min
May 28, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		2 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.