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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2000, 7:15 PM CST for Fort Bend County, Texas. It was in force for 15 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, 7:15 PM CST (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fort Bend County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHGX 130123 COR TORHOU TXC157-130130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 715 PM CST SUN NOV 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS RE-ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FORT BEND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 720 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF SUGAR LAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... MISSOURI CITY...FRESNO 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 2968 9585 2949 9588 2948 9552 2963 9555
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, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Colorado, Wharton | 47 min |
| Nov 12, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 40 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 |
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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.