Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 14, 1991, 6:32 PM CST for Colorado County, Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 1991, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 1991, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colorado County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
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 tornado 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, Jan 14, 5:44 PM CST, 48 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jan 14, 5:55 PM CST, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEASTHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GALVESTON TX
445 PM CST MON JAN 14 1991
.....TORNADO WATCH AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR GALVESTON AND
CHAMBERS COUNTIES...INCLUDING GALVESTON ISLAND OF SOUTHEAST
TEXAS.....
NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO
DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THEY WERE EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM PORT ARANSAS TO AUSTIN TO 30 MILES NORTH OF LUFKIN. HEAVIEST
RAINFALL WAS OVER AN AREA FROM HALLETSVILLE TO LAGRANGE TO WEST OF
COLLEGE STATION. SHOWERS WERE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF HOUSTON
...FREEPORT AND GALVESTON...OTHERS WERE OVER THE` COASTAL WATERS SOUTH
OF MATAGORDA.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.Special weather statement, Jan 14, 6:24 PM CST, 8 minutes before
TXZ048-150100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GALVESTON TX
535 PM CST MON JAN 14 1991
.....TORNADO WATCH AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR GALVESTON AND
CHAMBERS COUNTIES...INCLUDING GALVESTON ISLAND OF SOUTHEAST
TEXAS.....
NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED TO
DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THEY WERE EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM PORT ARANSAS TO AUSTIN TO 45 MILES NORTH OF LUFKIN. HEAVIEST
RAINFALL WAS OVER AN AREA FROM HALLETSVILLE TO COLUMBUS TO BELLVILLE.
SHOWERS WERE ALONG THE COASTAL AREAS FROM PALACIOS TO HOUSTON...
OTHERS WERE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT O'CONNOR TO PORT
ARANSAS AND OUT TO 125 !MILES SOUTHWEST OF GALVESTON.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Waller | 62 min |
| Jan 14, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 69 min |
| Jan 14, 7:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 63 min |
| Jan 14, 8:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 67 min |
| Jan 14, 8:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 67 min |
| Jan 14, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 65 min |
| Jan 14, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery, San Jacinto | 68 min |
| Jan 14, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 68 min |
| Jan 14, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 118 min |
| Jan 14, 10:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 69 min |
| Jan 15, 12:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 56 min |
| Jan 15, 3:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jan 15, 7:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 117 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.