Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 14, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 15, 2010, 4:40 AM CST for 17 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 15, 2010, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 15, 2010, 4:40 AM CST (10:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 15, 2010, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2010, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harris County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Madison County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 768 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.