Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 4:59 PM CDT for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
336 WFUS54 KHGX 022159 TORHOU TXC291-022245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 457 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 545 PM CDT * AT 453 PM CDT...NUMEROUS REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM HAVE BEEN RECIEVED FROM THE LIBERTY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE...INCLUDING...A TORNADO...FUNNEL CLOUD...AND GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL. THE STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY OR DRIFTING SLOWLY WEST. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... DAYTON LAKES AND RURAL LIBERTY COUNTY. 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 3031 9476 3018 9461 3048 9420 3066 9440 $$
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, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 2 hr |
| 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.