Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 15, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 24, 2010, 9:28 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 25, 2010, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2010, 9:28 PM CST (03:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 25, 2010, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2010, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 15 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 03:28 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 6:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Harris | 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.