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  • Flood Watch 1

NWS’s polygons as issued, or the zones a zone-issued alert names; SPC’s watches by their counties. Checked . Data: NOAA/NWS, NOAA/SPC.

Agency warning geometry · no observed imagery displayed
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Interactive imagery loads separately. Missing radar does not remove warnings or imply clear weather.

Outlines: NOAA/NWS · Radar cells: IEM/NEXRAD. Outlines are warned areas, not storm paths.

Lightning activity — GOES GLM

Total lightning, including in-cloud activity. Not ground-strike locations or a safe-to-go-outside signal.

Cached lightning observations have not loaded. An empty map is not zero lightning.

Cached lightning source details and text readings

Snow analysis — NOHRSC

Source-rendered snow depth and snow water equivalent for the lower 48. History changes this snow picture only; warnings and radar keep their own clocks.

Stored snow depth · footprint valid 2026-10-28 12:00:00 UTC, picture retrieved 2026-10-28 18:08:05.975 UTC.

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  • 0 - 0.39 in
  • 0.39 - 2.0 in
  • 2.0 - 3.9 in
  • 3.9 - 9.8 in
  • 9.8 - 20 in
  • 20 - 39 in
  • 39 - 59 in
  • 59 - 98 in
  • 98 - 197 in
  • 197 - 295 in
  • 295 - 394 in
  • 394 - 787 in
NOHRSC snow analysis for the lower 48; see the adjacent source legend and time qualification
NOAA/NWS/NOHRSC’s original picture and legend. No station or address value is inferred.

NOHRSC footprint times are metadata; pixel analysis time is not independently verified. Snow-depth pixels have previously differed from the footprint time. This is modeled/assimilated snow analysis, not a measurement at a place. Unshaded and no-data areas do not establish zero snow.

Snow pictures, retained history and source provenance

Change time or forecast product

Recorded weather · gaps are marked. Coverage begins with recording activation.

Live sources keep independent clocks.

Replay coverage and interpretation

Rolling target: 24 hours; cells: six hours. Radar: NOAA MRMS national overview, 8-minute tolerance. Satellite: original GOES GeoColor day/night picture, hourly sampling, 75-minute tolerance. No interpolation or latest-image fallback. Warning and source checks retain their own clocks. “Recorded by” is collector acquisition evidence, not exact browser publication history.

Current GLM density, velocity and specialist layers are hidden during replay. Snow uses retained footprint metadata with unverified pixel time. Forecast uses one pinned issuance/run and exact valid time.

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Analysis and guidance

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Observations

Coastal observationsRadar-derived cellsStations and river gauges

Rain and flooding

Flash-flood risk, Day 1River gauges in floodRain expected and rain that fell

Severe storms

SPC Day 1 outlookWatchesMesoscale discussions

Analysis

Area, source times and interpretation

Current cached context, independently dated. Regional reference: TX; a reference within a wider monitoring area does not replace the complete warning geography. This section remains separate from the historical replay cursor and official cyclone forecast. Use Forecast to pin a retained model package.

Storm ingredients: SPC’s hourly analysis

SPC mesoanalysis map, Mixed-layer CAPE and CIN, Southern Plains region, analysis for 20Z. Its key and units are in SPC’s picture; what it shows is described beside it.
Analysis SPC mesoanalysis for . The Southern Plains region. Data: NOAA/SPC.

Instability: Mixed-layer CAPE and CIN (J/kg)

How much energy a rising parcel of air near the ground would have. More means stronger updrafts if storms form; the shaded cap (CIN) is what has to be overcome first, and storms may not form at all.

The technical reading

MLCAPE: convective available potential energy of a parcel with the mean properties of the lowest 100 mb, contoured in J/kg. MLCIN, shaded, is the convective inhibition below the level of free convection. Values over about 1,000 J/kg are moderate and over 2,500 large; under strong CIN a high CAPE can stay unused.

An ingredient, not a forecast: SPC’s analysis of the hour, from observations and a short-range model’s first guess. No one value is a warning or an outcome; storms need several ingredients together, and something to start them.

SPC mesoanalysis checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

Radar-derived cells (28) · current

Collector checked ; feed generated . Zero cells does not establish coverage or clear weather. Observations from different radars are not merged.

  1. BRO / S2 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:31Z · current
  2. CRP / J8 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  3. CRP / L8 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  4. CRP / M8 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  5. CRP / P8 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  6. CRP / U8 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  7. CRP / V5 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  8. CRP / V8 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  9. CRP / W8 · scan 2026-10-28T21:00:51Z · current
  10. EWX / A1 · scan 2026-10-28T20:59:32Z · current
  11. EWX / C1 · scan 2026-10-28T20:59:32Z · current
  12. EWX / D1 · scan 2026-10-28T20:59:32Z · current
  13. EWX / P0 · scan 2026-10-28T20:59:32Z · current
  14. EWX / U0 · scan 2026-10-28T20:59:32Z · current
  15. GRK / C0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:01:04Z · current
  16. GRK / P0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:01:04Z · current
  17. GRK / V0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:01:04Z · current
  18. GRK / W0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:01:04Z · current
  19. GRK / X0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:01:04Z · current
  20. GRK / Y0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:01:04Z · current
  21. HGX / T3 · scan 2026-10-28T20:55:59Z · stale
  22. HGX / W3 · scan 2026-10-28T20:55:59Z · stale
  23. HGX / Y3 · scan 2026-10-28T20:55:59Z · stale
  24. HGX / Z3 · scan 2026-10-28T20:55:59Z · stale
  25. IAH / D2 · scan 2026-10-28T20:55:59Z · stale
  26. IAH / W1 · scan 2026-10-28T20:55:59Z · stale
  27. MAF / N0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:02:23Z · current
  28. MAF / O0 · scan 2026-10-28T21:02:23Z · current
Station and river observations (164)

Surface source current; observed water-level source current. Each reading keeps its own time. Map markers show at most 500 stations and 500 gauges; the complete source directory is paginated.

Circle: surface station; square: water-level gauge. Filled: current reading and source; hollow: stale, unconfirmed or missing observation. Marker color is not a hazard category. Enable “Stations and gauges” in Layers to inspect them on the map.

Showing 100 of 164 listed sources. All surface stations and retained trends · All supported gauges and forecasts

About this monitored event

This event, as this site’s operators set it up

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Severe weather
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Monitoring area details
Area
Texas (NWS states: TX)
Hazards
Tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, river flood, areal flood, coastal flood and other warnings, watches and advisories, and the forecasts for them
Window
In force now, with the next days of SPC’s and WPC’s products
Made by
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Published alerts in this area 1

  1. Flood Watch11 not yet in effect · until 31 Oct 00:00Z

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