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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 1, 20094 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 1, 2009, 10:33 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 1, 2009, 10:42 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 1, 2009, 10:33 AM CDT (15:33 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 1, 2009, 10:42 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 1, 2009, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Cottle County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 5005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 Apr 1, 6:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 6:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 4:19 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	30 hr
Apr 1, 4:42 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	16 hr
Apr 1, 3:38 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Parmer and 2 more	3 hr

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.