Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Nov 30, 2008, 4:10 AM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 30, 2008, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 30, 2008, 4:10 AM CST (10:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 30, 2008, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2008, 2:48 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hall County, TX, King County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 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 301010 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 410 AM CST SUN NOV 30 2008 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED TODAY... .A STRENGTHENING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM ACROSS THE CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY AND TIGHTENING SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL RESULT IN STRONG WINDS THROUGH THE DEPTH OF THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS TODAY. THERE REMAINS SOME UNCERTAINTY WHETHER THE STRONGEST WINDS ALOFT WILL BE TRANSFERED TO THE SURFACE...THOUGH SOME POSSIBLE LIGHT SHOWERS COULD AID THIS. REGARDLESS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED...WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING THIS EVENING. TXZ024>026-030>032-037-038-301800- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0021.081130T1700Z-081201T0000Z/ BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-DICKENS-KING- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MEMPHIS... TURKEY...CHILDRESS...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MATADOR... ROARING SPRINGS...PADUCAH...DICKENS...SPUR...GUTHRIE 410 AM CST SUN NOV 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE INTO THE 25 TO 35 MPH RANGE...WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH BY MIDDAY. THE STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS BEFORE DECREASING THIS EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KLUB 302043 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 243 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2008 TXZ024>026-030>032-037-038-010000- /O.CON.KLUB.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081201T0000Z/ BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-DICKENS-KING- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MEMPHIS... TURKEY...CHILDRESS...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MATADOR... ROARING SPRINGS...PADUCAH...DICKENS...SPUR...GUTHRIE 243 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELED... THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS GREATER THAN 30 MPH HAS DIMINISHED. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE DIMINISHING AROUND SUNSET. $$ KW
Nearby
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.