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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1992, 9:53 AM CDT for Chambers County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1992, 9:53 AM CDT (14:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1992, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 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, 2.9 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
- 1403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLS 261453 TORGLS TXC071-261530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GALVESTON TX 953 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHWESTERN CHAMBERS COUNTY ...INCLUDING GALVESTON BAY... ...AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM SAN LUIS PASS TO HIGH ISLAND... THE GALVESTON SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER GALVESTON BAY MOVING TOWARD BOLIVAR PENINSULA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FGURNITURE. 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, May 26, 6:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ032-037-045>047-049-261300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 600 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 1992 ...STORMY WEATHER IN THE FORECAST TODAY...COOLER WEATHER TO FOLLOW... A LATE SEASON...SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WAS HEADED FOR THE HOUSTON AREA. AT AROUND 5 AM THE COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM TEXARKANA TO COLLEGE STATION AND WEST TO NEAR DEL RIO. TEMPERATURES IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WERE IN THE 40S AND IN THE 50S ALONG THE RED RIVER AND IN OKLAHOMA. AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 60S AND 70S. AS THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE HOUSTON METROPOLITAN AREA AND COLLIDES WITH THE WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR THIS AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP WITH SOME OF THESE POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE. HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TOO DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO NEAR 60 TONIGHT AND WARM INTO THE UPPER 70S ON WEDNESDAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER 1NEWS SOURCES AS WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 59 min |
| May 25, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 59 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.