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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 13, 2025, 10:13 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 14, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2025, 10:13 PM CST (04:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 14, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 10:30 PM CST | Gale Warning | HGX | 21 hr | |
| Dec 14, 10:57 AM CST | Freeze Warning | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 9 more | 22 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:54 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 17 hr |
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.