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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 3:45 AM CDT for Chambers County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2000, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Chambers County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:04 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Anahuac, TX | Tornado near FM 1985 with rice dryers demolished and major tree damage at several homes. |
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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHGX 030848 TORHOU TXC071-030930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 345 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAMBERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 341 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANAHUAC...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL LOCATIONS BETWEEN HIGHWAY 65 AND FM 1985 MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. 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 2979 9461 2962 9465 2962 9429 2987 9434
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 9:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.