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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

June 13, 202113 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this heat advisory at Jun 13, 2021, 2:16 PM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2021, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2021, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Counties Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Waller County, TX, Wharton County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 372 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1215 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jun 13, 11:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 11:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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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.