A lightning strike from an anvil cloud after a thunderstorm moved through their location struck two people on a boat near the Texas 124 bridge over the Intercoastal Waterway in Chambers County.
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A lightning strike from an anvil cloud after a thunderstorm moved through their location struck two people on a boat near the Texas 124 bridge over the Intercoastal Waterway in Chambers County.
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 24, 4:23 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 523 AM CDT THU JUN 24 2010 .DISCUSSION... RADAR BEGINNING TO LIGHT UP BEFORE SUNRISE AS CONVECTION DEVELOPS ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE REMNANTS OF AN OLD S/W OVER THE PINEY WOODS...AS RAIN/ISO THUNDER FILLS IN OVER NORTH AND FAR WEST GALVESTON BAY/COASTAL COUNTIES. SCATTERED OFFSHORE CELLS MOVING INLAND AT 15-20 KTS. REGIONAL MOISTURE IS WELL ABOVE NORMAL (PLUS 2 INCH PWATS/2 STD DEV ABOVE NORM) FOR MID-LATE JUNE...AND RADAR IS EVIDENCE THAT IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH WARMING TO HAVE A DAY OF MORE WIDESPREAD RAINFALL. AS OVERALL COLUMN HAS SLIGHTLY COOLED OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS...ISOLATED THUNDER A DEFINITE AS A FEW STRONG CELLS MAY INTRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL (LIGHTNING HAS JUST HIT THE OFFICE AND THE RADAR A FEW TIMES...AN INDICATION THAT MORE INTENSE CONVECTION IS ALREADY HERE!). MODELS PREDICTING A SLOWER STORM MOTION THAN YESTERDAY'S SLUGGISH PACE...OR AT (OR UNDER) 3 KTS...THAT WILL FEED INTO THIS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THINKING. ENOUGH OF A THREAT WITHIN THIS OVERLY MOIST ENVIRONMENT TO PLACE IN INTERIOR ZONE PRODUCT. RIDGING WILL REMAIN JUST WEAK ENOUGH...OR WE REMAIN ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF A WEAK INV TROF AXIS...TO KEEP THE PRECIPITATION THREAT AROUND THROUGH FRIDAY. ALTHOUGH TODAY'S ACTION WILL COME FROM A COMBO OF THIS NORTHERN S/W AND HEATING...FRIDAY'S ACTIVITY MAY BE MORE ALONG THE LOCAL BREEZES/LATE AM HEATING. AFTER A MORE WIDESPREAD COVERAGE DAY TODAY...FRIDAY IS LOOKING LIKE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE 20-30 POPS TYPE-OF-DAYS AS MORE OF A MESO-DRIVEN SCENARIO. WEEKEND WEATHER WILL BE RELATIVELY DRIER WITH A NEAR 1.5" PW AIR MASS IS FORECAST TO FILTER IN THROUGH MONDAY. OTHER THAN ISOLATED CELLS POPPING UP ALONG THE BREEZE...IT WILL BE ANOTHER HOT AND DRY ONE. THE HOTTEST DAYS APPEAR TO BE ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THICKNESSES INCREASE TO NEAR 582 DM AND...WITH MODEST TDS IN THE AVERAGE LOW TO MID 70S...CLEARER INTERIOR SKIES WILL ALLOW THE AMBIENT TEMP TO TOP OUT IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S. THIS EQUATES TO HEAT INDICES REACHING AND EXCEEDING THE 106 F MARK. EARLY WORK WEEK WEATHER WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT UPON WHETHER OR NOT THERE WILL BE A TROPICAL SYSTEM IN THE GULF. NHC WAVERS BETWEEN 20 TO 40 PERCENT ON WHETHER THIS PERSISTENT DISTURBED CARIBBEAN WEATHER WILL FORM A CLOSED OFF LOW IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. WHILE WE WAIT...PROGNOSTICATIONS TAKE A SYSTEM INTO LOWER MEXICO (ECMWF) OR CONTINUE TO SHOW NOTHING (GFS). THE WAITING GAME CONTINUES....IN THE MEANTIME ENJOY THIS RAIN. 31 && .MARINE... EXPECT INCREASING COVERAGE OF SHRA/TSTMS IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO PERSIST THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS THEN DIMINISH AS IT FOCUSES INLAND. OTHERWISE...LIGHT ONSHORE FLOW AND LOW SEAS EXPECTED UNTIL AT LEAST SATURDAY. STILL WATCHING THE TROPICAL WAVE IN THE CARIBBEAN WHICH SHOULD MAKE ITS WAY TO THE YUCATAN IN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. BEYOND THAT...THERE'S STILL A WIDE VARIETY OF MODEL SOLNS REGARDING POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRACKS. UNTIL THE SYSTEM BECOMES BETTER DEFINED...PLAN THROW IN SOME ERLY WINDS AND BUMP SEAS UP A FOOT OR TWO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THAT BEING SAID...THERE IS CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY AND THE EXTENDED PORTIONS OF THE FCST ARE SUBJECT TO SOME BIG CHANGES. 47 && .AVIATION... STARTING TO SOME PRECIP DEVELOP NEAR GLS BAY AND ANTICIPATE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY ACROSS THE REST OF SE TX AS THE INVERTED MID LEVEL TROF PASSES WWD THRU THE AREA. MORE-OR-LESS TAKE THE PRECIP YDAY IN LA AND SHIFT IT INTO SE TX TODAY. CONVECTIVE TEMPS AROUND 87 DEGREES. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL REMAINS A POSSIBILITY WITH DEEPER MOISTURE OVERHEAD AND SLOW STORM MOTIONS. VFR OUTSIDE ANY CONVECTION. PRECIP SHOULD TAPER OFF THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. 47 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 93 74 94 76 97 / 50 20 20 30 10 HOUSTON (IAH) 91 76 93 76 96 / 50 20 30 20 20 GALVESTON (GLS) 88 82 88 82 91 / 60 10 20 20 20 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && DISCUSSION...31/47
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 639 AM CDT THU JUN 24 2010 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-251145- 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- 639 AM CDT THU JUN 24 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE...COUPLED WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND A NEARBY UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OR TWO...WILL SET THE STAGE FOR WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY SO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE DAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL INCREASE FROM RECENT VALUES FROM SATURDAY ON AS MAXIMUM VALUES REACH OR EXCEED THE MIDDLE 90S. ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY...HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 105 AND 108 DEGREES. PERSONS PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD PREPARE FOR MORE INTENSE HEAT AND HUMIDITY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:32 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike from an anvil cloud after a thunderstorm moved through their location struck two people on a boat near the Texas 124 bridge over the Intercoastal Waterway in Chambers County. One victim was killed and the other was injured.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Chambers | 2010-06-24 | 30 | Male | Boating | Direct |
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