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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT for Austin County, Waller County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Austin County, TX, Waller County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 9:42 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bellville, TX | |
| Sep 20, 9:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellville, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 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 210147 TORHOU TXC473-210245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 845 PM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...WALLER COUNTY AT 845 PM...A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES WAS 7 MILES NORTH-NORTH WEST OF BRENHAM MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL APPROACH THE KENNEY AREA BY 915 PM AND BELLVILLE BY 930 PM. PERSONS IN KENNEY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!!! 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.
1 follow-up statement
000 TTAA00 KHOU 210150 COR TORHOU TXC015-210245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR AUSTIN COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 845 PM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...AUSTIN COUNTY AT 845 PM...A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES WAS 7 MILES NORTH-NORTH WEST OF BRENHAM MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL APPROACH THE KENNEY AREA BY 915 PM AND BELLVILLE BY 930 PM. PERSONS IN KENNEY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!!! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN T,HE 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Burleson | 69 min |
| Sep 20, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Washington | 60 min |
| Sep 20, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Waller | 63 min |
| Sep 20, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Washington | 56 min |
| Sep 20, 9:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin, Burleson, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin | 62 min |
| Sep 20, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 59 min |
| Sep 20, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton | 56 min |
| Sep 20, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 69 min |
| Sep 21, 12:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin | 118 min |
| Sep 21, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Wharton | 64 min |
| Sep 21, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson | 66 min |
| Sep 21, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 65 min |
| Sep 21, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.