Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 18, 1995, 9:05 AM CST for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1995, 9:05 AM CST (15:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1995, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Liberty County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 181505 TORHOU TXC291-181545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 905 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...LIBERTY COUNTY AT 903 AM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAYTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. DAYTON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 Jan 18, 3:01 AM CST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 3:01 AM CST, 6 hours 4 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 3 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ALL MODELS ARE IN GENERALL AGREEMENT IN PUSHING COLD FRONT THRU SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY. WITH STG LOW LVL JET...AMPLE MOISTURE AND INCREASING INSTABILITY THE CHANCE OF SVR TSTMS WILL PRECEDE THE ACTUAL CDFNT. FFG LESS THAN 2 INCHES OVER ALL BUT CSTL ZNES SO WILL CONT FFW FOR THIS MRNG AS ADDITIONAL 1-2 INCHES PSBL WITH ISOLATED AMTS NR 3 INCHES. AFT CDFNT PUSHES THRU WINDS WILL INCR FROM WEST TO NORTHWEST AND TEMPS WILL BEGIN TO FALL. MAXIMUMS WILL BE THIS MRNG FALLING INTO THE UPPER 40S AND LOWER 50S OVER MOST OF AREA BY LATE AFTN. EXPECT CLEARING SKIES OVER MOST REGIONS TNGT XCP FOR NE WHERE SOME RAP AROUND CLDS MIGHT PERSIST FOR A LTL LONGER. NGM TEMPS SEEM A LTL WARM FOR TNGT AND THU SO LEANED TOWARD AVN TEMPS. POPS LOOKS GOOD. PRELIMINARIES... IAH TU 070/039 061/036 065 34700 ...FFW ALL BUT CST THIS MRNG ...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES AFTN 34
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 3:52 AM CST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-511-513-181555- SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 352 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING. THERE IS ALSO A RISK OF HEAVY RAIN OVER REGION THIS MORNING ALSO. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN COMBINATION WITH A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING. A SURFACE LOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN SOUTH TEXAS AND MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. THIS SURFACE LOW WILL INCREASE LOW LEVEL WINDS FROM THE SOUTH THUS INCREASING THE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION. THE MAIN THREAT AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...HOWEVER A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE EAST OF THE SURFACE LOW AS STRONG WIND SHEAR WILL LEAD TO SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT. IN ADDITION TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER ALL BUT THE COASTAL COUNTIES. THE GROUND IS SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEAR THREE INCHES. EMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARE URGED TO CHECK THEIR PREPAREDNESS PLANS AND STAFFING LEVELS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING THIS MORNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY ALSO BE NECESSARY FOR THIS DEVELOPING EVENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 11:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Trinity | 115 min |
| Jan 18, 7:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity | 3 hr |
| Jan 18, 7:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 53 min |
| Jan 18, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 2 hr |
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.