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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 4:20 PM CDT for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 2, 2003, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 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), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 2019 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381 WFUS54 KHGX 022120 TORHOU TXC291-022200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 420 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 418 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOSS HILL...NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... HARDIN MOSS HILL 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 3022 9486 3009 9471 3040 9431 3057 9451 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Polk | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 6:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 111 min | |
| Jun 2, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.