Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 10, 1992, 1:41 PM CDT for Chambers County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 1992, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 1992, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1018 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLS 101841 TORGLS TXC071-101915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GALVESTON TX 141 PM CDT SAT OCT 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...CENTRAL CHAMBERS COUNTY ...INCLUDING GALVESTON BAY... ...AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM SAN LUIS PASS TO HIGH ISLAND... AT 1;34 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN CHAMBERS COUNTY BETWEEN SMITH POINT AND CANADA RANCH NEAR HIGHWAY 562 MOVING EAST. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. NNNN
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, Oct 10, 10:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ032-037-045>47-049-101715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1009 AM CDT SAT OCT 10 1992 ...PATCHY FOG CONTINUES OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS... AT 1000 AM CDT...PATCHY FOG CONTINUED TO AFFECT PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. VISIBILITIES RANGED FROM 1/4 OF A MILE AT INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT TO 1/2 OF A MILE AT VICTORIA TO 7/8 OF A MILE AT COLLEGE STATION. VISIBILITIES AT OTHER LOCATIONS ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST RANGE FROM 3 TO 8 MILES. THE FOG WAS BEING PRODUCED BY MOISTURE MOVING NORTHWARD AT LOW LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WITH COOLER AIR ALOFT. THE PATCHY FOG SHOULD BEGIN TO LIFT TOWARD THE NOON HOUR AS WINDS INCREASE AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE HOUSTON METROPOLITAN AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...MOTORISTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DRIVE CAUTIOUSLY WHEN DRIVING THROUGH THE FOG. BE PREPARED TO SLOW DOWN AND REMEMBER TO ONLY USE YOUR LOW-BEAM HEADLIGHTS.
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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.