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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2012, 6:17 PM CDT for Colorado County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 26, 2012, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Colorado County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
123
WFUS54 KHGX 262317
TORHGX
TXC089-262345-
/O.NEW.KHGX.TO.W.0035.120626T2317Z-120626T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
617 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN COLORADO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCK ISLAND... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT
20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE TORNADO WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SHERIDAN.
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 2970 9662 2954 9652 2946 9668 2957 9679
2957 9683 2958 9684 2961 9685
TIME...MOT...LOC 2317Z 062DEG 16KT 2958 9667
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris, Waller | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Fort Bend | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Wharton | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Austin | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Colorado | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 29 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.