Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 5:46 PM CDT for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 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), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
000 WFUS54 KHGX 022246 TORHOU TXC291-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 545 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 630 PM CDT * AT 545 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEVERS...DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENEFICK...MOVING LITTLE. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH BOTH OF THESE STORMS. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... DEVERS...DAISETTA THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. 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 3029 9492 2990 9497 2990 9445 3003 9416 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 300 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 WILL BE UPDATING ZONES FOR THE NEW SVR TSTM WATCH (#464) WHICH WILL COVER AREAS ACROSS SE TX SOUTH OF THE CURRENT WATCH. FINALLY SEEING SOME RAIN AGAIN ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SE TX. UNFORTUNATELY...IT COMES WITH A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. MAIN SHORT TERM CONCERNS IS THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL AND POPS FOR TONIGHT. BELIEVE THREAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AREAWIDE AS UPPER TROUGH AXIS MOVES ACROSS SE TX. AN IMPRESSIVE CLUSTER OF STORMS IS LOCATED JUST WEST OF THE AUSTIN AREA AND IS MOVING SE...WHICH IS A LITTLE RIGHT OF THE MID-LEVEL FLOW. THIS IS INDICATIVE OF THE STORM MOTION WE WILL LIKELY SEE LATER THIS EVENING...MEANING DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE AREA COULD REACH THE COAST LATER THIS EVENING. DUE TO CONFIDENCE ISSUES WILL TAPER POPS FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH FOR THE 1ST PERIOD. FOR TOMORROW THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK...ISSUES INCLUDE: FRONTAL BOUNDARY LOCATION...POPS...AND SVR TSTMS ON TUE. HAVE DECIDED TO INCLUDE LOW SCT POPS FOR DAYTIME HOURS THROUGH THU AND SLIGHT CHC POPS OVERNIGHT. FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LIKELY FLATTEN TONIGHT AROUND NORTHERN EDGE OF SE TX AND BECOME STATIONARY. THIS IS FOLLOWING THE ETA SOLN. SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY...SUFFICIENT MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE FOR SCT AFT/EVE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A NUMBER OF WEAK SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AND THESE WILL PERIODICALLY AID WITH LIFT. COLD POOL ALOFT SHOULD REMAIN IN PLACE FOR TOMORROW. THIS...COUPLED WITH A STATIONARY BOUNDARY NEAR THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE CWA WILL LIKELY LEAD TO ANOTHER ACTIVE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SE TX. AT THIS POINT SVR THREAT APPEARS MARGINAL. SO ALTHOUGH POSSIBLE...WILL NOT INCLUDE IN THE ZONE FORECAST AT THIS POINT. FLOW BECOMES SW ALOFT AT THE END OF THE WEEK WITH MOISTURE LEVELS INCREASING TO AROUND 2 INCHES. IF MODELS ARE CORRECT...A BETTER CHC OF RAIN WILL OCCUR AT THE END OF THE WEEK ACROSS SE TX. WILL KEEP CHC POPS FOR FRI/SAT PERIOD AS WELL AS SLIGHT CHC FOR SUN/MON. 33/40 .HGX...SVR TSTM WATCH #462 NORTHERN AREAS THROUGH 6 PM CDT. PRELIMS... CLL BB 072/092 071 090 071 632 IAH BB 075/093 074 091 072 532 GLS BB 079/088 079 087 078 432
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 9:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 16 minutes before
GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-031200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 930 AM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH DEEP MOISTURE AND A STRONGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
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, 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, 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 |
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.