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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

March 15, 202520 counties in Texas

NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2025, 12:37 PM CDT for 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 2025, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX

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, Jackson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 343 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2025-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2025-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -136 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 15, 12:30 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 12:30 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 9:03 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 7:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXHouston49 min
Mar 14, 8:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXHouston34 min
Mar 14, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston20 min
Mar 14, 8:27 PM CDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryHGX14 hr
Mar 14, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXHouston24 min
Mar 15, 2:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXBurleson19 min
Mar 15, 2:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson26 min
Mar 15, 2:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson32 min
Mar 15, 3:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXBurleson41 min
Mar 15, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Grimes, Madison33 min
Mar 15, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson, Washington30 min
Mar 15, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGrimes, Madison, Walker35 min
Mar 15, 3:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatHGXBrazos, Burleson, Grimes31 min
Mar 15, 4:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGrimes, Madison, Walker21 min
Mar 15, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Madison16 min
Mar 15, 4:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHGXHouston43 min
Mar 15, 9:45 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryHGX11 hr
Mar 15, 4:06 PM CDTRip Current StatementHGXBrazoria, Galveston, Matagorda5 hr

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.