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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 4:11 PM CST for Colorado County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- Nov 12, 2000, 4:11 PM CST (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colorado County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 65 min |
| Nov 12, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Colorado, Jackson, Wharton | 63 min |
| Nov 12, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Washington | 53 min |
| Nov 12, 3:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Washington | 36 min |
| Nov 12, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado | 49 min |
| Nov 12, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Waller | 56 min |
| Nov 12, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 64 min |
| Nov 12, 4:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin | 35 min |
| Nov 12, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Colorado | 33 min |
| Nov 12, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Waller | 48 min |
| Nov 12, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Wharton | 31 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.