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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

January 13, 20065 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 13, 2006, 5:41 AM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 13, 2006, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 13, 2006, 5:41 AM CST (11:41 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 13, 2006, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 13, 2006, 3:32 PM CST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Counties Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Matagorda County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 403 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2006-01-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 803 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2006-01-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
3.3

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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.