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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 18, 2024, 3:02 PM CST for Liberty County, Texas. It was in force for 13 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
- Nov 18, 2024, 3:02 PM CST (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2024, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Liberty County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Polk | 28 min |
| Nov 18, 3:06 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Galveston | 24 min |
| Nov 18, 3:22 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 6 hr | |
| Nov 18, 4:45 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 30 min | |
| Nov 18, 5:11 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 49 min | |
| Nov 18, 5:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Chambers | 26 min |
| Nov 18, 5:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Chambers | 27 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.