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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 27, 1994Houston County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 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
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

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston62 min
May 27, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston62 min
May 27, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXTrinity62 min
May 28, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk68 min
May 28, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWalker44 min
May 28, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk59 min
May 28, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGalveston, Harris63 min
May 28, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos52 min
May 28, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazoria58 min
May 28, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson40 min
May 28, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWashington52 min
May 28, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXWashington34 min
May 28, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Waller60 min
May 28, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty52 min
May 28, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXChambers64 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.