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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 21, 1992, 2:28 PM CST for Fort Bend County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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
- Nov 21, 1992, 2:28 PM CST (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 21, 1992, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fort Bend County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2:40 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Fort Bend, TX | |
| Nov 21, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Fort Bend, 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 212029 TORHOU TXC157-212130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 228 PM CST SAT NOV 21 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...FORT BEND COUNTY AT 230 PM CST...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FORT BEND COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 330 PM CST. A LARGE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING OUT OF WHARTON COUNTY INTO FORT BEND COUNTY...TOWARDS THE RICHMOND/ROSENBURG AREA. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 1:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Wharton | 42 min |
| Nov 21, 2:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Wharton | 46 min |
| Nov 21, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 55 min |
| Nov 21, 3:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 64 min |
| Nov 21, 3:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 57 min |
| Nov 21, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 56 min |
| Nov 21, 4:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 55 min |
| Nov 21, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 48 min |
| Nov 21, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 43 min |
| Nov 21, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 55 min |
| Nov 21, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 75 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.