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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 6:43 PM CST for Colorado County, Wharton County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- Nov 12, 2000, 6:43 PM CST (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Colorado County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 12, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1083 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHGX 130044 TORHOU TXC089-481-130130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 643 PM CST SUN NOV 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLORADO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS WHARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 640 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAGLE LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... THE HIGHWAY 90A CORRIDOR FROM EAGLE LAKE TO EAST BERNARD. MOVE TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME FOR A STRONG SHELTER NOW! 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 2965 9645 2947 9645 2942 9605 2961 9611
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Wharton | 30 min |
| Nov 12, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Colorado | 23 min |
| Nov 12, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 38 min |
| Nov 12, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 40 min |
| Nov 12, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 15 min |
| Nov 12, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 47 min |
| Nov 12, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 45 min |
| Nov 12, 8:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 66 min |
| Nov 12, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 60 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.