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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 27, 1997, 9:21 PM CST for Galveston County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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
- Jan 27, 1997, 9:21 PM CST (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1997, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 69 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 03:23 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 00:00Z, 3.4 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
- 1472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 280324 RRA TORHOU TXC167-280430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 921 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...GALVESTON COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 920 PM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER WEST BAY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. GALVESTON ISLAND FROM JAMAICA THROUGH GALVESTON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. TORRENTIAL RAIN WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 6:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty | 3 hr |
| Jan 27, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 51 min |
| Jan 27, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 65 min |
| Jan 27, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 68 min |
| Jan 27, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 69 min |
| Jan 27, 7:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 61 min |
| Jan 27, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 69 min |
| Jan 27, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 65 min |
| Jan 27, 8:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 3 hr |
| Jan 27, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 60 min |
| Jan 27, 9:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty | 3 hr |
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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.