Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1986, 8:40 AM CDT for Chambers County, Galveston County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1986, 8:40 AM CDT (13:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1986, 9:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chambers County, TX, Galveston County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 2027 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.