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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 13, 20256 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 13, 2025, 2:58 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 2025, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 14, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 14, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Houston County, TX, Madison County, TX, Washington County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2025-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2025-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 7:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXWashington36 min
Mar 12, 8:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXGrimes, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker66 min
Mar 12, 8:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXAustin50 min
Mar 13, 2:58 PM CDTFire Weather WatchHGXAustin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Fort Bend and 12 more24 hr
Mar 13, 5:55 PM CDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryHGX16 hr
Mar 13, 6:00 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Matagorda14 hr

Nearby

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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.