Tornado Warning 28, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Issued

Jun 29, 1995, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)

Expired

Jun 29, 1995, 7:52 PM CDT

In force

55 min

Issued by

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Brazoria County, TX

The Houston radar (KHGX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KHOU 292356
TORHOU
TXC039-300100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
657 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...WESTERN BRAZORIA COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 655 PM...A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF
DANCIGER. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
CROSS HIGHWAY 36 SOUTH OF DAMON AROUND 720 PM.
 
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 POSSIBL2E.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT GET
INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 29, 2:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.

SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX
230 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1995

WILL CONTINUE FFA THROUGH THIS EVENING.  GRIDDED DATA CONTINUES TO
PLACE SE TX IN A WEAK TROF AXIS WITH EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES CONTINUING
TO TRAVERSE THE AREA.  OF GREATEST CONCERN IS THE TREMENDOUS MOISTURE
ACROSS THE AREA (SEE LATEST QPFERD).  PRECIP WATERS PROGGED TO BE
NEAR OR ABOVE 2 INCHES THRU SAT WITH MEAN RH/S 70 TO 90%.  IN
ADDITION...MCC/MCS DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED TO ASSIST THE SE MOVEMENT OF
A COLD FRONT IN N TX.  MODELS PROGRESS THIS FRONT INTO SE TX ON SAT
MORNING.  AS THE BOUNDARY APPROACHES...IT WILL ACT AS A FOCUS FOR
MORE RW/TRW DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SAT.  GREATEST CHANCES WILL BE PLACED
ALONG THE UPPER COAST WHERE HIGHEST PRECIP WATERS WILL BE FOUND.
FUTURE MOVEMENT AND INTERACTION OF CURRENT AND FUTURE OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES WILL NEED TO BE EXAMINED BY UPCOMING SHIFTS TO ADJUST
FUTURE POPS AS HE/SHE SEES FIT.  PREFERRED THE HIGHER NGM POPS AND
WENT WITH COOLER FAN DAYTIME TEMPS (MAINLY DUE TO EXPECTED CLOUDS).

IAH TE 070/087 070/089 071 42554                            -42-

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