Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Walker | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 42 min |
| Apr 27, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 59 min |
| Apr 27, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 66 min |
| Apr 27, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 22 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.