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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

October 26, 2023Montgomery County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2023, 6:27 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Texas. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2023, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Oct 26, 2023, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Radar indicated
Hail
0.75 in

County Montgomery County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 328 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-10-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 10:02 AM CDTRip Current StatementHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Matagorda36 hr
Oct 26, 5:28 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHGXSan Jacinto, Trinity, Walker3 hr
Oct 26, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris, Montgomery, Waller16 min
Oct 26, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery20 min
Oct 26, 6:49 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHGXAustin, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Walker, Waller and 1 more116 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.