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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 25, 2012, 7:06 AM CST for Brazos County, Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2012, 7:06 AM CST (13:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2012, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 7:15 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Bryan, TX | DAMAGE TO GARAGE DOOR AND AND ROOF DAMAGE TO HOUSE AT INTERSECTION OF HWY 30 AND FM 158. |
| Jan 25, 7:24 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | College Station, TX | BUILDING WALL VENEER FELL DOWN AT TEXAS AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY. |
| Jan 25, 7:24 AM CST | NON-TSTM WND DMG | College Station, TX | BUILDING WALL VENEER FELL DOWN AT TEXAS AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 3:17 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 301 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
759
WFUS54 KHGX 251306
TORHGX
TXC041-051-251330-
/O.NEW.KHGX.TO.W.0010.120125T1306Z-120125T1330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
706 AM CST WED JAN 25 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BRAZOS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
EASTERN BURLESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 730 AM CST
* AT 700 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR SNOOK... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE TORNADO WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WELLBORN...WIXON VALLEY...COLLEGE STATION AND BRYAN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN THE INTERIOR HALLWAY OR
A ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
IF YOU ARE INSIDE A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM
IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST
RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR
HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST FOR THE WARNED AREA.
&&
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE...
OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3080 9630 3067 9620 3061 9618 3059 9619
3058 9617 3049 9615 3039 9650 3051 9657
TIME...MOT...LOC 1305Z 237DEG 29KT 3048 9647
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 5:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 64 min |
| Jan 25, 5:49 AM CST | Wind Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 14 more | 38 days |
| Jan 25, 6:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Washington | 63 min |
| Jan 25, 6:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Burleson, Washington | 32 min |
| Jan 25, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison, Waller, Washington | 44 min |
| Jan 25, 7:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Grimes, Harris, Waller, Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 25, 7:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Waller, Washington | 37 min |
| Jan 25, 7:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 47 min |
| Jan 25, 7:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Grimes, Harris, Houston, Madison, Montgomery and 4 more | 50 min |
| Jan 25, 8:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Houston, Madison, Montgomery, Walker | 41 min |
| Jan 25, 8:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery, Walker | 37 min |
| Jan 25, 8:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery, Waller | 10 min |
| Jan 25, 8:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jan 25, 8:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Houston, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity and 1 more | 44 min |
| Jan 25, 8:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Walker | 23 min |
| Jan 25, 9:14 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Grimes, Waller, Washington, Wharton | 3 hr |
| Jan 25, 9:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 46 min |
| Jan 25, 9:43 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery, Waller, Wharton | 2 hr |
| Jan 25, 9:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton | 47 min |
| Jan 25, 10:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity | 39 min |
| Jan 25, 10:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 52 min |
| Jan 25, 10:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda, Montgomery, Waller and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 25, 10:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris, Wharton | 46 min |
| Jan 25, 10:36 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 114 min | |
| Jan 25, 10:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda | 48 min |
| Jan 25, 11:01 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 119 min |
| Jan 25, 11:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Polk, San Jacinto | 22 min |
| Jan 25, 11:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris | 32 min |
| Jan 25, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 51 min |
| Jan 25, 11:46 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 6 days |
| Jan 25, 11:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Matagorda | 58 min |
| Jan 25, 11:50 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 85 min | |
| Jan 25, 11:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 33 min |
| Jan 25, 12:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Harris | 21 min |
| Jan 25, 12:40 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 95 min | |
| Jan 25, 12:48 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Liberty | 87 min |
| Jan 25, 12:51 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 6 days |
| Jan 25, 1:09 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 66 min | |
| Jan 25, 1:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Galveston | 48 min |
| Jan 25, 2:16 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 59 min | |
| Jan 25, 3:07 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.