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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 26, 1992Chambers County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1992-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1403 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1992-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto59 min
May 25, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk59 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992

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.