Alert archive / Texas / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this high wind warning at Mar 2, 2008, 8:36 PM CST for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2008, 8:36 PM CST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2008, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KLUB 030236 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 836 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 TXZ021>024-027>030-033>035-030600- /O.UPG.KLUB.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-080303T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KLUB.HW.W.0002.080303T0236Z-080303T0600Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK... SLATON...WOLFFORTH 836 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR SMALL CARS AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ TXZ025-026-031-032-036-039>041-030600- /O.CON.KLUB.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-080303T0600Z/ HALL-CHILDRESS-MOTLEY-COTTLE-CROSBY-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MEMPHIS...TURKEY...CHILDRESS... MATADOR...ROARING SPRINGS...PADUCAH...CROSBYTON...RALLS... PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA...ODONNELL 836 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS EARLY HIS EVENING...RESULTING IN STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS FROM 45 TO 55. PATCHY BLOWING DUST MAY OCCUR WITH THESE WINDS DURING THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE PRECIPITATION CHANCES INCREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ TXZ037-038-042>044-031000- /O.CON.KLUB.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-080303T1800Z/ DICKENS-KING-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DICKENS...SPUR...GUTHRIE...POST... JAYTON...ASPERMONT 836 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CST MONDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CST MONDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE SOUTHERN ROLLING PLAINS AND SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS LATER THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS FROM 45 TO 55 MPH. PATCHY BLOWING DUST MAY OCCUR WITH THESE WINDS. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR SMALL CARS AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
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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.