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Wind Advisory 15, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 29, 202218 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 29, 2022, 4:05 AM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 29, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 2022, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 30, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Counties Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harris 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), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:10 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 260 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2022-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 100 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2022-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 29, 4:05 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 4:05 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 10:35 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryHGX4 days
Mar 29, 3:59 AM CDTRip Current StatementHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Matagorda42 hr
Mar 29, 4:06 AM CDTFire Weather WatchHGXAustin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris and 5 more24 hr

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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.