Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2022
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 3, 2022, 3:36 AM CST for Galveston County, Jackson County, Matagorda County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 3, 2022, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 38 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2022, 3:36 AM CST (09:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2022, 4:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Galveston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 Feb 2, 11:25 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 11:25 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 6:35 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:36 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | HGX | Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Grimes, Houston and 7 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:43 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Fort Bend and 15 more | 32 hr |
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.