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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1995, 4:09 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Texas. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1995, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1995, 4:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brazoria County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 3175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 282107 TORHOU TXC039-282200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 409 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...BRAZORIA COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 405 PM... RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROSHARON MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARDS ALVIN AT 10 MPH. 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.
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.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 28, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 300 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995 SCATTERED RW/TRW ACROSS COASTAL AREAS OF SE TX AT THIS TIME AS INTERACTION OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM EARLY MORNING ACTIVITY TO OUR N AND NW...UPPER LEVEL JET...WEAK SHORTWAVES...AND AFTERNOON HEATING ASSIST IN DESTABLIZATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. MODELS CONTINUE TO POINT TO SHORTWAVES MOVING ACROSS THE AREA THU AND FRI. THESE DISTURBANCES ALONG WITH HIGH MOISTURE LEVELS (PRECIP WATERS 1.75 TO 2.00 INCHES AND MEAN RH VALUES >70%) AND LI/S AROUND -5 SHOULD KEEP RW/TRW CHANCES NEAR FWC NUMBERS BOTH THU AND FRI. BEST CONCENTRATION SHOULD BE DURING THE DAYS AS AFTERNOON HEATING KICKS IN. WILL GO WITH FWC POPS BUT WILL MAKE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS ON TEMPS. THE TEMP FORECAST COULD BE TRICKY DEPENDING ON RW/TRW LOCATION (2 PM READINGS...HOU=93,NWSO HOU=76,GLS=91). WE'LL DO OUR BEST. <42> IAH EE 075/092 075/091 074 42242
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-511-513-282200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1038 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF HOUSTON...BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION...CROCKETT...HUNTSVILLE...LIVINGSTON...JASPER...GALVESTON AND BEAUMONT. A WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ALONG WITH A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY NEAR A BEAUMONT TO HOUSTON TO SAN ANTONIO LINE WILL INTERACT WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TODAY TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION...SOME OF WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE GREATEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS DURING THE MAXIMUM HEATING PERIOD OF THE DAY. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION TO SEVERE WEATHER...THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD LEAD TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL AVERAGE AROUND 1/2 INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE...THE HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY BE NEAR THE COAST. ALL SOUTHEAST TEXAS RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS SOURCES FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES. ALL SPOTTER NETWORKS SHOULD ALSO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-511-513-282200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1038 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF HOUSTON...BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION...CROCKETT...HUNTSVILLE...LIVINGSTON...JASPER...GALVESTON AND BEAUMONT. A WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ALONG WITH A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY NEAR A BEAUMONT TO HOUSTON TO SAN ANTONIO LINE WILL INTERACT WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TODAY TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION...SOME OF WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE GREATEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS DURING THE MAXIMUM HEATING PERIOD OF THE DAY. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION TO SEVERE WEATHER...THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD LEAD TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL AVERAGE AROUND 1/2 INCH WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE...THE HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY BE NEAR THE COAST. ALL SOUTHEAST TEXAS RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS SOURCES FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES. ALL SPOTTER NETWORKS SHOULD ALSO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 47 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.