Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2002, 10:26 PM CST for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2002, 10:26 PM CST (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2002, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Liberty County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
395 WFUS54 KHGX 290426 TORHOU TXC291-290515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1022 PM CST MON OCT 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 1115 PM CST * AT 1017 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2 THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE FIRST ONE WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF DAYTON...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS STORM MAY AFFECT LIBERTY...DAISETTA AND DEVERS. THE SECOND STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOSS HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS HEADED INTO HARDIN COUNTY. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... KENEFICK LIBERTY...DAYTON LAKES AMES HARDIN MOSS HILL DAISETTA 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 3008 9499 2990 9494 2997 9446 3035 9461
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 7:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 41 min |
| Oct 28, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Waller | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 60 min |
| Oct 28, 9:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 22 min |
| Oct 28, 10:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 10:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 4 hr |
| Oct 29, 12:13 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 2 hr | |
| Oct 29, 12:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 1:55 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.