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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 19, 202512 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 19, 2025, 2:25 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 19, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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 19, 2025, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 19, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 19, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Counties Austin County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Madison County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:27 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 18, 11:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 11:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 10:17 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryHGX27 hr
Mar 19, 2:17 PM CDTLow Water AdvisoryHGX20 hr
Mar 19, 2:26 PM CDTWind AdvisoryHGXBrazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Jackson, Matagorda20 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2025Every red flag warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.