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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 26, 1989Chambers County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1989, 8:53 PM CDT for Chambers County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1989, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1989, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Chambers 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1989-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 85 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1989-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLS 270159 COR
TORGLS
TXC071-270300-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING... CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GALVESTON TEXAS
853 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

SOUTHEAST TEXAS... CHAMBERS

CHAMBERS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTED A BIG TORNADO AT
SMITHPOINT AND DOUBLE BAYOU MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXChambers5 hr
Jun 26, 9:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXGalveston4 hr
Jun 26, 10:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXLiberty4 hr
Jun 26, 10:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXMontgomery4 hr
Jun 26, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXGalveston65 min
Jun 27, 12:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXHarris2 hr
Jun 27, 2:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXLiberty3 hr

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.