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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2006, 8:10 AM CDT for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Apr 29, 2006, 8:10 AM CDT (13:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2006, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 6:04 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 470 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHGX 291310 TORHGX TXC291-291400- /O.NEW.KHGX.TO.W.0013.060429T1310Z-060429T1400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 810 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 807 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF DAISETTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CENTRAL LIBERTY COUNTY... NORTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY... MOSS HILL... ROMAYOR... 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 3032 9512 2993 9501 3011 9461 3047 9476 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KHGX 291329 SVSHGX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 828 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 TXC291-291400- /O.CON.KHGX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060429T1400Z/ LIBERTY TX- 828 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR LIBERTY COUNTY UNTIL 900 AM CDT... AT 823 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THICKET...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MOSS HILL...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE... OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3032 9512 2993 9501 3011 9461 3047 9473 $$
000 WWUS54 KHGX 291400 SVSHGX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 900 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 TXC291-291410- /O.EXP.KHGX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060429T1400Z/ LIBERTY TX- 900 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LIBERTY COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT FOR 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 3032 9512 2993 9501 3011 9461 3047 9473 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 5:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery, San Jacinto | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 6:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 7:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 8:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 9:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 67 min |
| Apr 29, 9:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 10:29 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 91 min | |
| Apr 29, 11:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Chambers | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 11:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 92 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.