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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2000, 8:46 PM CDT for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- May 19, 2000, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Liberty County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dayton, TX | Trees down. |
| May 19, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dayton, TX | Trees down. |
| May 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty, TX | Trees down. |
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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 701 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
094 WFUS54 KHGX 200146 TORHOU TXC291-200245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 846 PM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 842 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... DAYTON KENEFICK...LIBERTY AMES...DAYTON LAKES 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 35 min |
| May 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 116 min |
| May 19, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Waller | 3 hr |
| May 19, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 100 min |
| May 19, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 45 min |
| May 19, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 43 min |
| May 19, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 50 min |
| May 19, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 30 min |
| May 19, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 3 hr |
| May 20, 12:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Waller and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 12:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 65 min |
| May 20, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Galveston | 28 min |
| May 20, 2:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 38 min |
| May 20, 4:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.