Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harris County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Harris, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 1, 2:30 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:30 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON, TX 230 PM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 TSTMS CONT TO FIRE ALG BNDRY OVR N PTN OF FA... AND EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO CONT WELL INTO EVENING WITH SOME DVLPMNT TO S AS WELL. SO... WILL FCST TSTMS! ALSO...AS THS SFC BNDRY DRFTG ONLY VRY SLOLY TO S... WL EXTND FFA TO HARRIS AND FT BEND COUNTIES OF ZN 47 AND ADD 45 AND 46 AS WELL WHERE TSTMS HV BCM ENTRAINED ALG BNDRY OVR PTNS OF MONTGOMERY...SAN JACINTO...AND POLK COUNTIES. SHWRS/TSTMS ALSO BCMG MORE ORGANIZED ALG E-W LINE OVER HARRIS-FT BENT-COLORADO COUNTIES LAST HOUR...THIS ACTVTY ALSO LKLY TO CONT INTO EVENG... THUS WILL LIFT POPS FOR TNT TO REFLECT THIS. OTHRW... BLEW TDAYS TEMPS BY EXPCTNG TOO MUCH FRM CLD CVR... SO WILL WILL PLAY MORE MIDDLE-OF- ROAD GAME FOR TMRW AND GO WITH MOS... WHICH SUGGS WE TRIM A CAT FRM TDAYS HIGHS DUE... AGN... TO CLDS/PCPN. WITH H5 TROF ROTATING IN TMW...ALG WITH PVA... SFC CNVGNC... STG H7 VV AND PSBLY SEVERAL OTHR THINGS I DIDN'T EVEN LOOK AT... EXPCT VRY INTERESTING DAY TMRW WITH SVR WX AGN PSBL AND WL LIKELY WANT TO EXTND FFA IN TIME AT LEAST...PSBLY IN TERMS OF AREA AS WELL. 38 SE TX...FFA ZNS 37-45-46 AND HARRIS...FT BEND...WHARTON...AUST$IN AND COLORADO COUNTIES OF ZN 47
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.