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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 14, 2001Galveston County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 14, 2001, 4:41 PM CST for Galveston County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 14, 2001, 4:41 PM CST (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2001, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Galveston County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 14, 4:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 57 M	Texas City, TX
Mar 14, 5:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Galveston, TX	Utility poles and power lines down; broken windows at a car dealership.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 14, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KHGX 142243
TORHOU
TXC167-142315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
441 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GALVESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
 
  THIS REPLACES THE EARLIER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GALVESTON
  COUNTY

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 440 PM CST...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON
  CANAL STREET IN SANTA FE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
  SANTA FE...DICKINSON...BACLIFF...KEMAH
  SAN LEON...LA MARQUE
  TEXAS CITY...HITCHCOCK
  BAYOU VISTA
  TIKI ISLAND

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHERo TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE...
OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 2956 9505 2931 9514 2919 9495 2935 9472

The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris, Waller	23 min
Mar 14, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin	23 min
Mar 14, 2:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Harris, Waller	47 min
Mar 14, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Montgomery	39 min
Mar 14, 2:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Harris, Liberty, Montgomery	46 min
Mar 14, 3:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Chambers	54 min
Mar 14, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton	64 min
Mar 14, 3:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris, Liberty	61 min
Mar 14, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Galveston	57 min
Mar 14, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria	34 min
Mar 14, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris	28 min
Mar 14, 4:52 PM CST	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.