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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

July 31, 1992Austin County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 31, 1992, 3:37 PM CDT for Austin County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 1992, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Austin County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 261 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2265 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -71 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
2265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 3:17 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris43 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.