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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1994, 10:49 PM CDT for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1994, 10:49 PM CDT (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1994, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 62 min |
| May 27, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 62 min |
| May 27, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 62 min |
| May 28, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 68 min |
| May 28, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Walker | 44 min |
| May 28, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 59 min |
| May 28, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston, Harris | 63 min |
| May 28, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos | 52 min |
| May 28, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 58 min |
| May 28, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 40 min |
| May 28, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Washington | 52 min |
| May 28, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Washington | 34 min |
| May 28, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Waller | 60 min |
| May 28, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 52 min |
| May 28, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 64 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.