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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 15, 2025Brazos County, Burleson County, Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2025, 2:43 AM CDT for Brazos County, Burleson County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 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 15, 2025, 2:43 AM CDT (07:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 14, 11:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 11:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 14, 8:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 14, 9:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 15, 2:11 AM CDT, 32 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
Mar 14, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	49 min
Mar 14, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	34 min
Mar 14, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston	20 min
Mar 14, 8:27 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	HGX		14 hr
Mar 14, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	24 min
Mar 15, 2:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Burleson	19 min
Mar 15, 2:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	26 min
Mar 15, 3:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Burleson	41 min
Mar 15, 3:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Madison	33 min
Mar 15, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Washington	30 min
Mar 15, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Madison, Walker	35 min
Mar 15, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes	31 min
Mar 15, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Madison, Walker	21 min
Mar 15, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison	16 min
Mar 15, 4:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HGX	Houston	43 min
Mar 15, 9:45 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	HGX		11 hr
Mar 15, 12:37 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	HGX	Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 14 more	7 hr
Mar 15, 4:06 PM CDT	Rip Current Statement	HGX	Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda	5 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.