Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 5, 1986, 4:21 PM CST for Harris County, Montgomery County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 1986, 4:21 PM CST (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 1986, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harris County, TX, Montgomery County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Montgomery, TX | |
| Feb 5, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado F3 | Harris, TX | |
| Feb 5, 5:00 PM CST | Hail 1 | Montgomery, TX | |
| Feb 5, 5:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Montgomery, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 5, 2:54 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
ATTN SELS A HOU
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
255 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986
245 PM 2/5/86 WHARTON AND COLORADO COUNTIES ONE INCH HAIL
REPORTED ALONG
WHARTON AND
COLORADO COUNTY
LINE..JUST SOUTH
OF THE TOWN OF
GARWOOD..TEXAS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado, Wharton | 64 min |
| Feb 5, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 56 min |
| Feb 5, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, San Jacinto | 66 min |
| Feb 5, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 65 min |
| Feb 5, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.