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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2000, 2:36 AM CDT for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2000, 2:36 AM CDT (07:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2000, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harris County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHGX 020739 TORHOU TXC201-020815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 236 AM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARRIS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * AT 234 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF JERSEY VILLAGE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... JERSEY VILLAGE ALDINE BUSH-INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT HUMBLE...KINGWOOD...SHELDON...LAKE HOUSTON DAM THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST ALONG THE NORTH LOOP OF BELTWAY 8 THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! QUICK ACTION MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. MOVE TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME NOW FOR A STRONG SHELTER. IF SHELTER IS NOT AVAILABLE... MOVE TO A DITCH OR CULVERT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE... OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3001 9578 2983 9577 2982 9508 3006 9509
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 65 min |
| May 1, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos | 46 min |
| May 1, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes | 24 min |
| May 1, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Walker | 60 min |
| May 2, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Waller | 68 min |
| May 2, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 66 min |
| May 2, 1:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 2, 2:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 42 min |
| May 2, 2:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Waller | 33 min |
| May 2, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, San Jacinto | 46 min |
| May 2, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 54 min |
| May 2, 3:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 46 min |
| May 2, 3:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 65 min |
| May 2, 3:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 52 min |
| May 2, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.