Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 44, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 1998, 5:50 PM CDT for Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 14, 1998, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1998, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wharton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 142249 RRA TORHOU TXC481-142355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 550 PM CDT MON SEP 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN WHARTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 655 PM CDT * AT 549 PM CDT... RADAR AND WHARTON COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTS INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF EL CAMPO...OR IN THE VICINITY OF LOUISE... MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * THIS TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LOUISE BY 620 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 245 PM CDT MON SEP 14 1998 MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTH WITH A SERIES OF LOOSE LEWP FROM JASPER COUNTY TO BEYOND 180NM SOUTH OF GLS. VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE FALLEN OVER LIBERTY AND CHAMBERS AND BOLIVAR PENINSULA. AREA RADARS INDICATE IN EXCESS OF 5 INCHES IN SOME OF THESE AREAS. ALTHOUGH SOME WEAKENING OF CONVECTION MAY OCCUR BEFORE MIDNIGHT THE REDEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION IN THE GULF AND OVER ERN SETX SEEMS QUITE LIKELY. FAST WESTERLIES OUT THE SW US TO NETX TAKE A TURN NORTHEAST. UPPER TROUGH SLIDING ACROSS THE PLAINS WILL LEAVE BEHIND AN UPPER LOW OVER OK/NRN TX TUESDAY WHICH SHOULD CONTINUE TO PUMP IN THE MOISTURE FROM THE GULF. WILL NEED TO KEEP FFA UP THROUGH TONIGHT AND WILL PROBABLY BE NECESSARY TUESDAY AS WELL. TO TOP IT ALL OFF STRENGTHENING SE AND EASTERLY SFC WINDS BODE BAD NEWS FOR THE FOLKS ON THE COAST. TIDES OF 2 TO 2.5 FEET CURRENTLY RUNNING ABOVE ASTRONOMICAL PREDICTED LEVELS. HIGH TIDES TO OCCUR BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 3 AM FOR MOST OF THE UPPER TX COAST. HAVE ISSUED A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH WITH EXPECTATIONS OF 3 TO 3.5 FOOT ABOVE ASTRONOMICAL PREDICTED LEVELS. AFTER THE MASSIVE BEACH EROSIONS THE POSSIBILITY COASTAL FLOODING AT LOWER TIDAL LEVELS A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE! DICKINSON BAYOU ALREADY HAVE PROBLEMS WITH WATER PILING UP. ETA AGAIN APPEARS TO BE OVERDOING THE GULF DEVELOPMENT. AVN APPEARS TO HAVE A MORE PLAUSIBLE SOLUTION. WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO KEEP AN EYE ON SOUTHERN END OF THE TROPICAL PLUME IN SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO AND POSSIBLY THE WESTERN CARRIBEAN. 45 PRELIMS... CLL E /E B/E 075 090/073 090 3433 LCL HVY RAIN POSSIBLE TNGT IAH CT>E/E&T E/E 075 089/074 090 6744 LCL HVY RAIN POSSIBLE TNGT-TUE GLS CT /ET B/E 077 087/077 088 7754 " PSX E /ET B/E 075 089/077 089 4754 " ***FFA FOR ALL ZONES ***COASTAL FLOOD WATCH-HARRIS/CHAMBERS/GLS/BRAZORIA/MATAGORDA/JACKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 10:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 1:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.