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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 12, 2024, 3:09 AM CST for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 12, 2024, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2024, 3:09 AM CST (09:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 12, 2024, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2024, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
All 23 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, Houston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity 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 09:09 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 493 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 Jan 11, 5:48 PM CST, 9 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 5:48 PM CST, 9 hours 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston, Madison | 48 min |
| Jan 12, 3:51 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 5 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.