Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2007, 10:39 AM CDT for Colorado County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- May 26, 2007, 10:39 AM CDT (15:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2007, 11:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Colorado County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHGX 261540 TORHGX TXC089-261645- /O.NEW.KHGX.TO.W.0013.070526T1539Z-070526T1645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1039 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLORADO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 AM CDT * AT 1033 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COLUMBUS...FRELSBURG...RURAL PORTIONS OF CENTRAL COLORADO COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ALONG FM HIGHWAY 2434 SOUTHEAST OF WEIMAR. 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 2967 9675 2957 9663 2970 9629 2994 9658 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KHGX 261620 SVSHGX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1120 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 TXC089-261645- /O.CON.KHGX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070526T1645Z/ COLORADO TX- 1120 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR COLORADO COUNTY UNTIL 1145 AM CDT... AT 1117 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRELSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE CIRCULATION WITH THE STORM HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT BUT IT STILL HAS TORNADIC POTENTIAL. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FRELSBURG... PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE... OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 2979 9664 2974 9654 2979 9639 2994 9658 $$
000 WWUS54 KHGX 261635 SVSHGX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1135 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 TXC089-261645- /O.CAN.KHGX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070526T1645Z/ COLORADO TX- 1135 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR COLORADO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. 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 2979 9664 2974 9654 2979 9639 2994 9658 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Colorado | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:11 PM CDT | Flood Watch | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 52 hr |
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.