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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

February 3, 2024Chambers County, Harris County, Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 3, 2024, 2:06 AM CST for Chambers County, Harris County, Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Feb 3, 2024, 2:06 AM CST (08:06 UTC)
Expired: Feb 3, 2024, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chambers County, TX, Harris County, TX, Liberty County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 335 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: 381 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.4

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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 Feb 2, 11:36 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 11:36 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 2, 11:13 PM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 3, 12:32 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 3, 12:40 AM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 3, 1:17 AM CST, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 3, 1:59 AM CST, 7 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
Feb 2, 11:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Colorado, Wharton	62 min
Feb 2, 11:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Jackson, Washington, Wharton	22 min
Feb 2, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Jackson, Waller, Wharton	45 min
Feb 3, 12:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery, Waller	43 min
Feb 3, 12:41 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		2 hr
Feb 3, 1:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris, Liberty, San Jacinto	43 min
Feb 3, 1:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Chambers, Liberty	46 min
Feb 3, 3:14 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		46 min
Feb 3, 4:08 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		67 min
Feb 3, 4:13 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		62 min
Feb 3, 4:36 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		24 min
Feb 3, 5:39 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		96 min
Feb 3, 6:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton	44 min
Feb 3, 6:44 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Matagorda	61 min
Feb 3, 6:56 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	HGX		64 min
Feb 3, 9:18 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		5 hr
Feb 3, 1:01 PM CST	River Flood Warning	HGX	Matagorda, Wharton	27 hr
Feb 3, 2:18 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		52 hr
Feb 3, 3:06 PM CST	River Flood Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Wharton	16 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.