Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 10, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Nov 11, 2006, 3:15 AM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 2006, 3:15 AM CST (09:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2006, 1:00 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 radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 35 min |
Nearby
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.