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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

April 1, 1988Walker County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 1988, 4:43 PM CST for Walker County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 1, 1988, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Apr 1, 1988, 5:45 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Walker 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1988-04-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1988-04-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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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.