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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

May 7, 1995San Jacinto County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1995, 5:37 PM CDT for San Jacinto County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 6:18 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County San Jacinto County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 1995-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2388 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2388 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHOU 072237
TORHOU
TXC407-072345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
537 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...SAN JACINTO COUNTY
 
A TORNADO WAS INDICATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLDSPRINGS JUST EAST OF
WILLIS ON THE COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30
MILES AND WILL EFFECT COLDSPRINGS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT GET
INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXMontgomery50 min
May 7, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXTrinity, Walker61 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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.