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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Nov 4, 2024, 9:55 AM CST for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 2024, 9:55 AM CST (15:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 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, Liberty County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:58 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 359 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
- 644 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
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 4, 5:45 AM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 4, 5:45 AM CST, 4 hours 10 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.