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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

April 27, 1990Liberty County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1990, 9:21 PM CDT for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 1990, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 1990, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Liberty 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1990-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 934 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 1990-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
934 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 4:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ032-046-045-272345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
437 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS AND A PART OF
SOUTHEAST TEXAS INCLUDING HOUSTON...TRINITY...POLK...AND WAKLER
COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

ALTHOUGH NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN THESE COUNTIES AT THIS
TIME...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER
AND TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.

AT 430 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND NORTHE
OF THE WACO AREA AND MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AND HOUR.
THESE COULD BEGIN TO EFFECT HOUSTON COUNTY WITH IN THE NEXT TWO HOURS.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ047-049-037-032-046-045-280045-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
544 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990

A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM 6 PM CDT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE HOUSTON/GALVESTON
METROPOLITAN AREAS.

NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS BUT
THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING FROM A LINE JUST EAST OF COLLEGE
TO EAST OF WACO.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
BE EFFECTING HOUSTON, WALKER, AND GRIMES COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT
HOUR.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 7:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ047-032-037-045>047-049-281000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
700 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM 6 PM CDT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT.  THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE HOUSTON/GALVESTON
METROPOLITAN AREAS....

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HOUSTON COUNTY UNTIL
715 PM...AND FOR GRIMES COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM...

RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE ABOVE TWO
COUNTIES FROM THE NORTHWEST...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  THERE HAVE
BEEN REPORTS OF TORNADOES ON THE GROUND IN BRAZOS COUNTY DURING THE PAST
15 MINUTES...NEAR OR SLIGHTLY EAST OF BRYAN AND COLLEGE STATION.

RESIDENTS IN THE WARNED COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST AND BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER
IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED.

.
RESIDENTS IN COUNTIES ADJACENT TO HOUSTON AND GRIMES COUNTIES SHOULD
BE ALERT...SINCBE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS MAY BE ISSUED OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS
THE LINE OF STORMS MOVES DEEPER INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV...FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES.
Local storm report, Apr 27, 9:10 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
ATTN SELS A HOU
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
911 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990

...STORM REPORT FOR FRI APR 27 1990...PRELIMINARY....

WALKER COUNTY... 7:12 PM CDT...TRINITY POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO
                 15 MILES WEST OF HUNSTVILLE.

GRIMES COUNTY... 7:19 PM CDT...GRIMES COUNTY SHERRIF REPORTS FUNNEL CLOUD
                 MOVING TOWARDS ANDERSON.  MARBEL SIZE HAIL.

GRIMES COUNTY... 7:38 PM CDT...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR NAVASOTA
                 IN GRIMES COUNTY.

WALKER COUNTY... 7:51 PM CDT...ONE INCH HAIL FALLING AT NEW WAVERLY..REPORTED
                 BY RADIO STATION IN COUNTY.
.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY...8:10 PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN MAGNOLIA
                    BY SHERRIFS DEPARTMENT.

MONTGOMER COUNTY... 8:10 PM CDT...SHERRIFS DEPARTMENT REPORTS TORNADO
                    TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY NEAR SPLENDORA AND RECEDED
                    BACK INTO CLOUD.

HARRIS COUNTY... 8:49..TO 9:01 PM CDT...IN NORTHWEST HARRIS COUNTY...
                 3/8 INCH HAIL JOHNS ROAD AND WHY 290.
                 MARBLE SIZE HAIL HWY 6 AND HWY 290.
                 FUNNEL REPORTED HWY 6 AND HWY 290.
                 GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WHY 6 AND WHY 290.
                 WIND SPEED OVER 50 MPH NEAR COPPERFIELD...JOHNS ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWalker56 min
Apr 27, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston42 min
Apr 27, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXTrinity59 min
Apr 27, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXGrimes56 min
Apr 27, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris66 min
Apr 27, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris45 min
Apr 27, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXFort Bend57 min
Apr 27, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria61 min
Apr 27, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston60 min
Apr 27, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston2 hr
Apr 27, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria22 min

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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.