Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 2:32 PM CST for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 26, 2001, 2:32 PM CST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2001, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Liberty County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 26, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
287 WFUS54 KHGX 262032 TORHOU TXC291-262100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 232 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 300 PM CST * AT 227 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER DAYTON LAKES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... DAYTON LAKES...KENEFICK HARDIN MOSS HILL 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 3017 9496 3003 9483 3026 9443 3045 9461
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Nov 26, 10:55 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 10:55 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1055 AM CST MON NOV 26 2001 WILL SEND OUT A ZONE UPDATE TO RAISE THE POPS A LITTLE BIT. SHOWER COVERAGE IS A MORE EXTENSIVE THAN WAS EXPECTED. .HGX...SCEC GULF WATERS OUT 20-60 NM. 42/37/TF PRELIMS (RAISED 1ST PERIOD POPS)... CLL ET 076/051 060/040 045 345 IAH ET 077/056 064/048 050 356 GLS ET 076/065 068/054 056 356
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.