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Special Weather Statement, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

April 10, 2024Wharton County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 10, 2024, 2:21 AM CDT for Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2024, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2024, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Wharton County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 2788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 10, 12:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 12:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 9, 11:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 9, 11:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 1:30 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 1:55 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 2:16 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 2:21 AM CDT, 0 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
Apr 9, 7:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty	21 min
Apr 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty	15 min
Apr 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty	15 min
Apr 9, 10:00 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		33 hr
Apr 9, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Washington	34 min
Apr 9, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Burleson, Washington	30 min
Apr 9, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Washington	30 min
Apr 9, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Angelina	28 min
Apr 9, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Grimes	34 min
Apr 9, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk, Trinity	13 min
Apr 10, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Fort Bend	30 min
Apr 10, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Waller, Wharton	33 min
Apr 10, 1:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Colorado	35 min
Apr 10, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Waller	44 min
Apr 10, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Washington	34 min
Apr 10, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris, Waller	31 min
Apr 10, 2:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton	38 min
Apr 10, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		35 min
Apr 10, 3:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Waller, Wharton	3 hr
Apr 10, 3:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris, Montgomery, Waller	37 min
Apr 10, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda, Wharton	36 min
Apr 10, 3:30 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		45 min
Apr 10, 3:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	HGX	Harris, Montgomery, Waller	3 hr
Apr 10, 3:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk and 1 more	21 min
Apr 10, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		61 min
Apr 10, 3:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk, Trinity	18 min
Apr 10, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston	44 min
Apr 10, 4:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris, Liberty, San Jacinto	57 min
Apr 10, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		60 min
Apr 10, 4:16 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		59 min
Apr 10, 4:35 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		25 min
Apr 10, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		33 min
Apr 10, 5:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		45 min
Apr 10, 6:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto	20 hr
Apr 10, 9:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HGX	Hardin, Liberty, Polk	65 hr
Apr 10, 10:06 AM CDT	Low Water Advisory	HGX		19 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.