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  • Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2
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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.

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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.

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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

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.

Soundings: what weather balloons measured

SPC’s skew-T diagram and hodograph of the sounding at Lake Charles, LA (LCH), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Lake Charles, LA (LCH), for (1 h 30 min ago). SPC’s graphic; the values in its panels (CAPE, shear, the indices) are SPC’s computations from these levels. Data: NOAA/SPC.

A balloon launched about an hour before the time named, measuring as it rose and drifted with the wind: the atmosphere above one place, at one time. Model soundings, which are forecasts, are not shown here.

The levels this sounding was drawn from (60)
Lake Charles, LA (LCH): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
1019 mb10 m25.017.0180° 8 kt
1007 mb113 m23.417.4—
1000 mb173 m22.616.6180° 9 kt
985 mb305 m22.416.4160° 8 kt
951 mb610 m20.812.1100° 8 kt
925 mb848 m18.810.8070° 10 kt
885 mb1219 m15.69.2060° 11 kt
854 mb1524 m13.07.8025° 11 kt
850 mb1566 m12.67.6020° 12 kt
835 mb1715 m12.05.0—
824 mb1829 m13.1-8.1030° 15 kt
813 mb1940 m13.4-9.6—
794 mb2134 m12.94.0040° 19 kt
773 mb2363 m12.42.4—
754 mb2572 m11.44.4—
739 mb2743 m10.32.8355° 7 kt
723 mb2922 m9.21.2—
712 mb3048 m8.42.9345° 4 kt
700 mb3189 m7.61.6305° 5 kt
688 mb3332 m6.8-0.2—
676 mb3476 m5.6-0.4—
661 mb3658 m4.9-3.7270° 5 kt
648 mb3822 m4.0-4.0—
637 mb3962 m3.1-4.9175° 2 kt
625 mb4115 m2.2-3.8—
613 mb4267 m1.3-5.6calm
590 mb4572 m-1.5-7.1245° 8 kt
568 mb4877 m-4.3-8.7260° 10 kt
547 mb5182 m-7.0-10.3255° 12 kt
526 mb5483 m-5.1-33.1—
513 mb5679 m-5.7-34.7—
500 mb5880 m-6.9-33.9260° 20 kt
486 mb6096 m-8.6-35.6255° 21 kt
457 mb6571 m-11.7-37.7—
437 mb6911 m-14.7-40.7—
418 mb7244 m-17.7-34.7—
400 mb7570 m-20.3-27.3245° 29 kt
390 mb7757 m-21.7-26.7—
367 mb8204 m-23.1-37.1—
352 mb8509 m-25.5-35.5—
322 mb9144 m-30.1-33.7275° 40 kt
309 mb9449 m-32.3-35.5270° 48 kt
300 mb9650 m-33.7-37.0275° 53 kt
283 mb10058 m-37.4-40.3265° 57 kt
271 mb10363 m-40.0-42.8265° 56 kt
260 mb10636 m-42.3-45.2—
250 mb10900 m-44.5-47.5270° 62 kt
236 mb11278 m-47.8-50.5270° 62 kt
220 mb11745 m-51.1-54.7—
209 mb12078 m-53.7-57.1—
200 mb12360 m-55.5-58.8275° 93 kt
190 mb12686 m-55.9-60.3—
180 mb13029 m-57.3-62.3—
169 mb13411 m-57.8-63.0280° 78 kt
150 mb14170 m-62.5-68.5275° 53 kt
140 mb14593 m-65.3-71.3—
129 mb15087 m-69.1-74.1—
117 mb15665 m-72.9-77.9—
106 mb16241 m-74.9-79.7—
100 mb16580 m-73.3-79.3250° 38 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

Radar-derived cells (9) · current

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

  1. CRP / Q2 · scan 2026-10-29T01:19:33Z · stale
  2. EPZ / F3 · scan 2026-10-29T01:22:27Z · current
  3. EPZ / G3 · scan 2026-10-29T01:22:27Z · current
  4. EPZ / X2 · scan 2026-10-29T01:22:27Z · current
  5. HDX / I1 · scan 2026-10-29T01:21:51Z · current
  6. HDX / L1 · scan 2026-10-29T01:21:51Z · current
  7. LBB / M0 · scan 2026-10-29T01:16:04Z · stale
  8. MAF / M2 · scan 2026-10-29T01:24:08Z · current
  9. MAF / Z2 · scan 2026-10-29T01:24:08Z · current
Station and river observations (159)

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 159 listed sources. All surface stations and retained trends · All supported gauges and forecasts

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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
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Published alerts in this area 7

  1. Severe Thunderstorm Warning22 new · until 01:45Z
  2. Flash Flood Warning41 new · until 04:15Z
  3. Flood Watch11 not yet in effect · until 31 Oct 00:00Z

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Severe Thunderstorm WarningHudspeth County, TXuntil Severe Thunderstorm WarningCulberson County, TXuntil Flash Flood WarningHudspeth County, TXuntil Flash Flood WarningEddy County, NM; Culberson County, TXuntil Flash Flood WarningHudspeth County, TXuntil Flash Flood WarningCulberson County, TXuntil Flood WatchMidland · Odessa · Hobbsstarts UpdateFlash Flood Warning issued by NWS Midland/Odessa TX: Culberson County, TXUpdateSevere Thunderstorm Warning issued by NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM: Hudspeth County, TXUpdateSPC Day 1 outlook issuedUpdateSevere Thunderstorm Warning no longer in force: Hudspeth County, TX