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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 16, 1991Galveston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1991, 7:08 PM CDT for Galveston County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1991, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1991, 7:38 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Galveston County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 1991-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3506 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1991-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3506 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXGalveston28 min
May 16, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers, Galveston2 hr
May 16, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty32 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.