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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1997, 12:20 PM CDT for Galveston County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 5, 1997, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1997, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Galveston County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 051724 RRA TORHOU TXC167-051800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1220 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...GALVESTON COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 1122 AM...GALVESTON BEACH PATROL REPORTED A TORNADO IN GALVESTON NEAR THE KROGER STORE ON THE SEAWALL. RADAR INDICATED A SMALL THUNDERSTORM OVER THE ISLAND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... SEEK SHELTER 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 Jun 5, 8:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 852 AM CDT THU JUN 5 1997 AFTER CHECKING OVR YSTRDY/S 12Z AND LST NGT/S 00Z ETA AND AVN MDLS... IT APPEARS THAT A COMBINATION OF BOTH DID WELL WITH THE PCPN THAT OCCURRED NR AND OVR SETX. BOTH MDLS SHOW THAT NVA WL BLD INTO SETX TDY WITH NRLY WNDS DRYING OUT THE LYR MSTR. THUS...OTHER THAN SOME MID AND HI LVL CLDS...FEEL THAT THE RAIN THREAT IS PRETTY MUCH OVR WITH ACRS THE INLAND PTNS OF THE FCST AREA. (WL COVER THE CSTL WATERS WITH THE SHORT TERM FCST.) SATL AND RDR CONFIRM THIS BY SHOWING THE SHRAS AND TSTMS NR PSX MOVG OUT INTO THE GLF. THUS... JUST NEED TO REWORD THE CURRENT FCST TO TAKE OUT THE MENTION OF AM SHRAS. TEMP FCST LOOKS REASONABLE. 40 PREV PRELIMS UPDATED... CLL BABA 89/66 90/67 0000 IAH BABA 87/66 89/67 -000 GLS BABA 85/74 86/75 -000
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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.