Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 1995, 7:20 PM CST for Washington County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 1995, 7:20 PM CST (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 1995, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 1940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 010120 TORHOU TXC477-010215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 720 PM CST TUE OCT 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 718 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF SOMERVILLE NEAR TEXAS HIGHWAY 36. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PASS BETWEEN THE CITIES OF CLAY AND INDEPENDENCE AROUND 735 PM. THIS STORM ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR LAKE SOMERVILLE AT 7 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 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 Oct 31, 3:42 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 3:42 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION ...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 335 PM CST TUE OCT 31 1995 IN ADDITION TO THE EARLIER AFD...DECIDED TO KEEP HIER POPS IN THE LATER PDS THAN SUGGESTED BY THE FWC. A SFC LOW LOOKS TO BE LOCATED OVR SRN TX BY THE END OF THE PD...WHILE ALL THREE MODELS SUGGEST AT TSTM ACTIVITY DURG THE LATER PDS. ALSO...I MAY HAVE UNDER ESTIMATED THE CHCS FOR TONIGHT EARLIER. SATL LOOPS SHOW THE NOSE OF THE JET MOVG INTO THE HILL COUNTRY AREA WHERE TSTMS WHERE OCCURRING AS OF LATE WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE DIGGING AROUND THE S/W AND COMING THIS WAY. SO...HAVE UP EARLIER THOUGHTS ON POPS ACROSS THE AREA WITH HIER POPS STILL WELL INLAND NEAR THE CURRENT ACTIVITY. TEMPS NR MOS. PRELIMS... IAH EE 066/082 065/084 064 40454
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 60 min |
| Oct 31, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson, Washington | 57 min |
| Oct 31, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 30 min |
| Oct 31, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 117 min |
| Nov 1, 2:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Washington | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Madison | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 4:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 4:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 2 hr |
| Nov 1, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 96 min |
| Nov 1, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.