Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 8:01 PM CST for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 30, 2002, 8:01 PM CST (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Liberty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2027 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
692 WFUS54 KHGX 310201 TORHOU TXC291-310230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 800 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 754 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF DAYTON LAKES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... HARDIN...DAYTON LAKES...KENEFICK LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 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 3020 9491 3003 9484 3017 9458 3044 9469
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda, Wharton | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, Trinity | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 6:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk, Trinity | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 7:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston, Harris | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 7:54 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 66 min | |
| Mar 30, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 9:08 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 67 min | |
| Mar 30, 10:17 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 58 min | |
| Mar 31, 3:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 13 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.