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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 1, 2009, 4:19 AM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 1, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2009, 4:19 AM CDT (09:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 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 09:22 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 5741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 1, 4:15 AM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 4:15 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 3:45 PM CDT, 12 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 345 PM CDT TUE MAR 31 2009 TXZ021>044-012045- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 345 PM CDT TUE MAR 31 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FIRE WEATHER BRIEF AND SPOTTY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS WILL COMBINE TO CREATE ELEVATED TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WEDNESDAY AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CAPROCK WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADDITIONALLY...A STRONG COLD FRONT MAY BRING SUSTAINED NORTHWESTERLY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 4:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 1, 10:33 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Cottle, Kent, King, Stonewall | 3 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:38 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Parmer and 2 more | 3 hr |
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.