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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Lubbock, TX

September 20, 200624 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Sep 20, 2006, 3:46 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It took effect at Sep 21, 2006, 4:23 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 20, 2006, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 21, 2006, 4:23 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 21, 2006, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
All 24 counties

Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-09-20Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 259 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
1481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
279 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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Sep 20, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 20, 1:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
107 PM CDT WED SEP 20 2006

TXZ021>044-211200-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
107 PM CDT WED SEP 20 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL QUICKLY MOVE
AND DEVELOP NORTHEAST...OVERSPREADING PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND
NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...AND INTO THE
ROLLING PLAINS AND SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AROUND OR JUST AFTER
MIDNIGHT.

CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR LOCALIZED OCCURRENCES OF LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE STORMS.
THE MOST LIKELY LOCATIONS TO EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE NORTH
AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PLAINS...TO LUBBOCK...TO MATADOR...TO
MEMPHIS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

STRONG WINDS

WESTERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE QUICKLY THURSDAY MORNING. SUSTAINED
SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 45 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE THROUGH AT LEAST MID AFTERNOON OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHERN
TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

OTHERWISE...THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW
FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...
ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA.

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.