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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

October 28, 20255 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this red flag warning at Oct 28, 2025, 10:58 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 29, 2025, 10:00 AM 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: Oct 28, 2025, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 29, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 29, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

Counties Austin County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Wharton County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 393 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 28, 6:28 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 6:28 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 28, 12:10 AM CDT	Gale Warning	HGX		48 hr
Oct 28, 11:48 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more	31 hr
Oct 28, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Polk	42 min
Oct 28, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Montgomery	45 min
Oct 28, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Liberty	32 min
Oct 28, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Harris	47 min
Oct 28, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Chambers	33 min
Oct 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Brazoria	30 min
Oct 28, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Chambers	42 min
Oct 28, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Chambers	41 min
Oct 28, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	HGX		25 min
Oct 28, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston	8 min

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.