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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this red flag warning at Nov 8, 2025, 11:15 PM CST for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 9, 2025, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 33 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
- Nov 8, 2025, 11:15 PM CST (05:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 9, 2025, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 33 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 05:16 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 10:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Watch | HGX | Polk | 42 hr |
| Nov 8, 10:54 PM CST | Wind Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 31 hr |
| Nov 8, 11:09 PM CST | Gale Warning | HGX | 31 hr | |
| Nov 8, 11:09 PM CST | Low Water Advisory | HGX | 49 hr | |
| Nov 9, 12:14 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 11:20 AM CST | Freeze Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Polk, Trinity, Walker | 22 hr |
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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.