An afternoon pulse thunderstorm generated a short-lived weak tornado.
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An afternoon pulse thunderstorm generated a short-lived weak tornado.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 20, 12:04 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 104 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 .DISCUSSION... MESO-HIGH INDICATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BY ANALYZED SURFACE DATA. VISIBLE IMAGERY INDICATE WEAKENING MCV OVER SAME REGION. LOW LEVEL CONFLUENT FLOW OVER SW ZONES HELPING TO FIRE UP CONVECTION OVER THAT REGION THIS MID MORNING. ISOLATED CELLS FIRING UP ALONG COAST FROM SARGENT TO HIGH ISLAND SPAWNING SOME WATERSPOUTS. THIS WAS MENTIONED IN OUR MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT. NAM12 APPEARS TO HAVE INITIALIZED WELL. CONVECTION SHOULD BECOME MORE ACTIVE OVER SOUTHERN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON AND STRONGER CELLS SHOULD DEVELOP NEAR SEABREEZE BOUNDARY. PREVIOUS ZFPHGX AND DISCUSSION COVERS THIS WELL. WE UPDATED THE EARLY PART OF 1ST PERIOD TO REFLECT LATEST CONVECTIVE TRENDS. 37 && .AVIATION... SEABREEZE JUST MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL COUNTIES...ABOUT 30-60 SOONER THAN YESTERDAY. STORMS ALONG THE SEABREEZE NOTICEABLY MORE ACTIVE THAN YESTERDAY AS WELL. IF NOT FOR THE CLL OBSERVATION WOULD HAVE MORE TROUBLE FINDING THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THE HILL COUNTRY STORMS. EXPECTING A SIMILAR SCENARIO TO YESTERDAY WITH STORMS RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING AS TEMPERATURES EXCEED THE 92-94 DEGREE RANGE...WHICH SHOULD BE VERY SHORTLY. AGAIN WIND GUSTS LOOK TO BE AN ISSUE AS THE SEABREEZE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY COLLIDE...INVERTED V SOUNDING. HAVE NUDGED UP THE WIND GUSTS IN THE TEMPO GROUPS FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SECOND ISSUE WILL BE HOW ACTIVE THE STORMS IN NETX GET AND IF AS THE UPPER FLOW WOULD INDICATE IS IF THEY HOLD TOGETHER AND COULD MOVE INTO THE UTS/CXO/IAH REGIONS TONIGHT AROUND THE 02-06Z TIMEFRAME. WILL ADD IN AN EVENING VCTS TO UTS AND PERHAPS CXO BUT HOLD OFF ON IAH. NOTE...IT WOULD BE OFFICIALLY SUMMER...AS SUMMER BEGINS AT 2359Z. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH A VERY WEAK COLD FRONT IS GOING TO MOVE DOWN INTO THE REGION SATURDAY MORNING AND WILL PROBABLY SEE TSRA POPPING UP AROUND 15Z. 45 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 409 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008/ DISCUSSION... ANOTHER DECAYING MCS MOVING INTO NCNTL TX EARLY THIS MORNING WHICH SHOULD BRING SOME SHRA/ISO TSTMS INTO NW PORTIONS OF THE CWA IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. LOOKING LIKE OUTFLOW(S) FROM THIS FEATURE COMBINED WITH DAYTIME HEATING COULD BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS TO THE REGION LATER TODAY. LIKE PREVIOUS DAYS...APPEARS BEST SHOT OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PROBABLY BE SOMEWHERE ALONG THE I-10 CORRIDOR OR MAYBE A BIT SOUTH - GENERALLY WHERE BOUNDARY COLLISIONS WITH THE SEABREEZE WHERE BE MORE LIKELY. FCST SOUNDINGS AGAIN SHOW THE INVERTED-V PROFILE WHICH SUGGESTS POSSIBILITY OF SVR WX/DAMAGING WINDS IN THE STRONGER CELLS. WILL MENTION POSSIBILITY OF SVR IN THE ZONES ACROSS SRN PARTS OF THE CWA. ONE LIMITING FACTOR HOWEVER MAY BE THE DELAY OF SIGNIFICANT HEATING IF BLOWOFF CLOUDINESS PERSISTS TOO LONG WHICH IN TURN LIMIT INSTABILITY AND AREAL PRECIP COVERAGE. MODELS SHOW ANOTHER MCS DEVELOPING IN WRN KS TONIGHT AS ANOTHER S/W HEADS DOWN THE NW FLOW ALOFT. MODEL CONSENSUS DOES MOSTLY SHOW THIS S/W ALONG WITH A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY REACHING NRN PARTS OF SE TX SAT EVNG BUT ACTUAL TIMING/POSITION IS ALWAYS SUSPECT THIS FAR OUT. BOTH 00Z GFS/NAM SHOWED SIGNIFICANT MCS AFFECTING THE REGION DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. 06Z NAM12 CAME IN AND WASNT ALL TOO EXCITED...BUT SOMETHING LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON. WILL ALSO NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON WHERE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ENDS UP AS IT MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL PRECIP THRU THE WEEKEND. H5 TROF RETROGRADES A BIT AND BEGINS BREAKING DOWN LATER IN THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...GENERALLY LEAVING A MID LEVEL WEAKNESS ACROSS ERN TX. THIS SHOULD ALLOW SEASONABLE TEMPS ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF DIURNAL SHRA/TSTMS FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. 47 && MARINE... NOT TOO MANY CHANGES FOR THE MARINE FCST THIS MORNING. OTHER THAN ISOLATED/WIDELY SCT TSRA MOVING INTO THE BAYS/WATERS FROM ALL THE OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY TO OUR NORTH...IT SHOULD BE RELATIVELY UNEVENT- FUL OVER THE WATERS OVER THE WEEKEND. 41 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 513 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-211200- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WHARTON- 513 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE TODAY.... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...THE SEABREEZE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL LIKELY ALL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. A FEW STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL THE PRIMARY WEATHER THREAT. IT APPEARS LOCATIONS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LIBERTY TO BELLVILLE LINE WILL SEE THE BETTER CHANCES OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS...GENERALLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS...AS THIS WILL BE THE FAVORED AREA FOR COLLISIONS BETWEEN OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND THE SEABREEZE. STORM MOTIONS WILL BE SLOW...SO THE STRONGER CELLS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED 2 TO 3 INCH RAINFALL AMOUNTS. ONE LIMITING FACTOR MAY BE THE DELAY OF SIGNIFICANT HEATING DUE TO MORNING CLOUDINESS WHICH WOULD IN TURN LIMIT INSTABILITY AND AREAL PRECIPITATION COVERAGE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHOULD MOVE INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS LATE SATURDAY AND STALL SOMEWHERE IN THE AREA. THIS ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING OVERHEAD WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:19 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The weak tornado lasted approximately three minutes around one mile east of Monaville.
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