Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1995, 10:46 PM CDT for Chambers County, Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1995, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chambers County, TX, Liberty County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 310347 TORHOU TXC071-291-310445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1046 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...CHAMBERS COUNTY...SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 1045 PM...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM NEAR HANKAMER ON INTERSTATE 10 IN NORTHERN CHAMBERS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS PATH WILL BRING THE STORM INTO SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY AND REACH THE DAYTON-LIBERTY AREA BY 1145 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... SEEK SvHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM... SUCH AS A CLOSET OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS... BLANKETS... OR PILLOWS.
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 Jul 30, 9:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 9:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 900 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1995 TROPICAL STORM DEAN CONTS TO BE WX FOCUS. CENTER (AS OF 0145Z) WAS ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF SAN LUIS PASS. RAIN BANDS ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEM LUK LIKE THEY WILL ENTRAIN OVER CHAMBERS AND SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY. 88-D ESTIMATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 4 TO 5 INCHES OVER E CHAMBERS COUNTY. 2 CONFIRMED TORNADOES WITH STRONGER STORMS IN THE FIRST RAIN BAND BTWN 7 AND 9 PM. EACH STORM DEVELOPED NR THE CST AND HAD SIMILAR STRUCTURE. AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE RAINS AND THE SLOWER MOVEMENT OF THE SYSTEM DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS. THE AREA WILL BE MONITORED FOR FLOODING...AS THE POTENTIAL REMAINS VERY HIGH FOR FLOODING TO OCCUR. PREVIOUS FCST IS ON TRACK AND PLAN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. 43
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 6:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
TXZ211-237-227-226-213-163-200-511-236-199-179-178-212-197-214-238- 310215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 623 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...CHAMBERS...LIBERTY...POLK...SAN JACINTO...MONTGOMERY ...HARRIS...GALVESTON...BRAZORIA...MATAGORDA...FORT BEND...WALLER... WHARTON...AUSTIN...AND WASHINGTON. THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIR ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM DEAN IS MOVING ASHORE ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST...MAKING CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS.
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 6:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ211-237-227-226-213-163-200-511-236-199-179-178-212-197-214-238- 310215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 623 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...CHAMBERS...LIBERTY...POLK...SAN JACINTO...MONTGOMERY ...HARRIS...GALVESTON...BRAZORIA...MATAGORDA...FORT BEND...WALLER... WHARTON...AUSTIN...AND WASHINGTON. THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIR ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM DEAN IS MOVING ASHORE ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST...MAKING CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS.
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 10:29 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ177-178-179-199-200-213-214-227-237-238-511-310430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1029 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 5 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING IN ASSOCIATION WITH TROPICAL DEPRESSION DEAN. ALTHOUGH DEAN IS WEAKENING...THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE. SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS TORNADO WATCH...BRAZORIA... FORT BEND...HARRIS...MONTGOMERY...WALKER...SAN JACINTO...LIBERTY... GALVESTON...CHAMBERS...AND POLK COUNTIES. THIS REPLACES THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER NEWS SOURCES FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 56 min |
| Jul 30, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 56 min |
| Jul 30, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 71 min |
| Jul 31, 12:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 3:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 4 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.