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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 1996, 12:09 PM CDT for Chambers County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 27, 1996, 12:09 PM CDT (17:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1996, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 271709 TORHOU TXC071-271815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 1209 PM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...CHAMBERS COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 1202 PM...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM OVER TRINITY BAY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANAUHAC 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 CAJRS 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 Sep 27, 10:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 10:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1005 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996 MASSIVE AFOS PROBLEMS AND VERY LIMITED DATA TO WORK WITH. COLD FRONT MOVING THRU SE TX THIS MORNING WITH PRE-FRONTAL ACTIVITY SPURRED BY WEAK DISTURBANCES IN THE UPPER FLOW KEEPING THINGS BUSY. EXPECT ALL THIS STUFF TO MOVE OFFSHORE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON - AOA 3 TO 4 PM. (WE HOPE!) :O TO ALL USERS OF KHGX RADAR PRECIP ESTIMATES, WE ARE UNDERESTIMATING BY 50%. BUYER BEWARE!!! 41
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 27, 6:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ199-200-210-211-213-214-226-227-237-238-271720- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 624 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS: AUSTIN...BRAZORIA...COLORADO...MONTGOMERY...WHARTON...LIBERTY... CHAMBERS...HARRIS...FORTBEND...AND GALVESTON COUNTIES INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMBINED WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL PRODUCE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE AND TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THIS AREA ARE URGED TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER APPROACH THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Sep 27, 6:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ199-200-210>214-226-227-237-238-271720- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON TX 635 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS: AUSTIN...BRAZORIA...COLORADO...MONTGOMERY...WHARTON...LIBERTY... CHAMBERS...HARRIS...WALLER...FORT BEND...AND GALVESTON COUNTIES INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMBINED WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL PRODUCE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE AND TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THIS AREA ARE URGED TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER APPROACH THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 8:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Madison | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Houston | 119 min |
| Sep 26, 10:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Trinity | 58 min |
| Sep 26, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Trinity | 2 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 57 min |
| Sep 27, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 64 min |
| Sep 27, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Walker | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, San Jacinto | 57 min |
| Sep 27, 4:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 115 min |
| Sep 27, 4:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 5:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery | 55 min |
| Sep 27, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery | 66 min |
| Sep 27, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 105 min |
| Sep 27, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 66 min |
| Sep 27, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 65 min |
| Sep 27, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 9:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 67 min |
| Sep 27, 9:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 9:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 64 min |
| Sep 27, 10:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 4 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 4 hr |
| Sep 27, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 48 min |
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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.