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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 3, 2025, 2:12 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 4, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2025, 2:12 PM CDT (19:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 4, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Waller County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 378 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
- 1840 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 20.3
Nearby
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.