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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 9:57 AM CST for Austin County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
- Dec 23, 2002, 9:57 AM CST (15:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2002, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Austin County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 5:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Dec 23, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 1686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 15.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
470 WFUS54 KHGX 231557 TORHOU TXC015-231630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 956 AM CST MON DEC 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... AUSTIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 AM CST * AT 954 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER INDUSTRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... INDUSTRY...NEW ULM...SHELBY...KENNEY THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN WEIMAR...CAUSING DAMAGE TO A CEMETARY. 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 2997 9662 2985 9648 3008 9622 3007 9654
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 6:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | 50 min | |
| Dec 23, 6:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | 62 min | |
| Dec 23, 9:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos | 49 min |
| Dec 23, 10:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Walker | 39 min |
| Dec 23, 10:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Trinity | 39 min |
| Dec 23, 11:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes | 44 min |
| Dec 23, 11:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Walker | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 12:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Madison | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 12:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Houston | 39 min |
| Dec 23, 1:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 1:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Dec 23, 1:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 43 min |
| Dec 23, 1:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 38 min |
| Dec 23, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery, Walker | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 2:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 39 min |
| Dec 23, 2:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 54 min |
| Dec 23, 2:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Dec 23, 2:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Trinity | 26 min |
| Dec 23, 2:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Walker | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 45 min |
| Dec 23, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Trinity | 44 min |
| Dec 23, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Madison | 40 min |
| Dec 23, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Madison | 50 min |
| Dec 23, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | 54 min |
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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.