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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

January 22, 1999Brazos County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 4:32 AM CST for Brazos County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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 22, 1999, 4:32 AM CST (10:32 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 1999, 5:15 AM CST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brazos County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 22, 4:34 AM CSTHail 0.75Millican, 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3099 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 1:51 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson34 min
Jan 22, 2:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson45 min
Jan 22, 3:01 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXBurleson34 min
Jan 22, 3:04 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXBrazos51 min
Jan 22, 3:26 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXGrimes59 min
Jan 22, 3:45 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXMadison50 min
Jan 22, 4:08 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Trinity, Walker57 min
Jan 22, 4:43 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXGrimes62 min
Jan 22, 5:08 AM CSTTornado WarningHGXWalker37 min
Jan 22, 5:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk33 min
Jan 22, 7:51 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty, San Jacinto44 min
Jan 22, 8:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk63 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.