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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2002, 12:34 AM CDT for Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2002, 12:34 AM CDT (05:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 12:55 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Van Vleck, TX | Tornado destroyed a storm on FM 457 between Van Vleck and Cedar Lane. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 11:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
829 WFUS54 KHGX 070534 TORHOU TXC321-070615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1234 AM CDT SAT SEP 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MATAGORDA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1232 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VAN VLECK...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... BAY CITY VAN VLECK 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 2917 9589 2891 9576 2885 9586 2906 9607
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 12:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 12:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 1:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda, Wharton | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 2:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Wharton | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Wharton | 36 min |
| Sep 7, 4:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Colorado | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Waller, Washington | 3 hr |
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.