Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 1998, 4:48 PM CST for Brazos County, Grimes County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 3 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
- Jan 21, 1998, 4:48 PM CST (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1998, 5:50 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brazos County, TX, Grimes County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 5:20 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Shiro, TX | |
| Jan 21, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Richards, TX | Tornado downed trees and powerlines in Richards. As the tornado moved into Montgomery County along FM 149, a barn roof was damaged 3 miles east of Richards, and a tree limb was blown through the metal on a car door. The storm continued moving to the east-nor |
| Jan 21, 6:00 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Roans Prairie, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 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 212248 RRA TORHOU TXC041-185-212350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 448 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 550 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BRAZOS COUNTY ...GRIMES COUNTY AT 447 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MILLICAN MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANDERSON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 1:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 58 min |
| Jan 21, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin | 60 min |
| Jan 21, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Burleson | 60 min |
| Jan 21, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 60 min |
| Jan 21, 3:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Jackson | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Washington | 64 min |
| Jan 21, 4:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Burleson | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos | 64 min |
| Jan 21, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Madison | 63 min |
| Jan 21, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Wharton | 63 min |
| Jan 21, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda | 65 min |
| Jan 21, 5:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 64 min |
| Jan 21, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Walker | 65 min |
| Jan 21, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison | 66 min |
| Jan 21, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.