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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Nov 12, 2023, 2:58 PM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 13, 2023, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2023, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 13, 2023, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2023, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 12, 11:59 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 11:59 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 3:23 AM CST | Gale Watch | HGX | 12 hr | |
| Nov 12, 3:23 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 45 hr | |
| Nov 12, 3:27 PM CST | Beach Hazards Statement | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda | 33 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:27 PM CST | Gale Warning | HGX | 33 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.