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Wind Advisory 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 1, 2009, 3:38 PM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2009, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KLUB 012038 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 338 PM CDT WED APR 1 2009 TXZ021-022-027-028-033-034-039-040-020500- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0013.090401T2038Z-090402T0000Z/ /O.CON.KLUB.WI.Y.0011.090402T0300Z-090402T1500Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-BAILEY-LAMB-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-YOAKUM-TERRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON...MORTON...LEVELLAND...PLAINS... DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD 338 PM CDT WED APR 1 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM CDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM CDT THURSDAY. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH LATE THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL NEAR SUNSET. A BRIEF DROP IN THE WINDS EARLY THIS EVENING WILL THEN BE FOLLOWED BY NORTHWEST WINDS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG PASSING COLD FRONT. GUSTS CLOSE TO 50 MPH MAY LEAD TO PATCHY BLOWING DUST WITH LOCALIZED VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THURSDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS SUSTAINED AT SPEEDS GREATER THAN 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. 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. && $$ TXZ023>026-029>032-035>038-041>044-020500- /O.CON.KLUB.WI.Y.0011.090402T0300Z-090402T1500Z/ SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-HALE-FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-LUBBOCK- CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE... MEMPHIS...TURKEY...CHILDRESS...PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY... MATADOR...ROARING SPRINGS...PADUCAH...LUBBOCK...SLATON... WOLFFORTH...CROSBYTON...RALLS...DICKENS...SPUR...GUTHRIE... TAHOKA...ODONNELL...POST...JAYTON...ASPERMONT 338 PM CDT WED APR 1 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM CDT THURSDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM CDT THURSDAY. BREEZY SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL INCREASE AND BECOME NORTHWESTERLY THIS EVENING IN THE WAKE OF A PASSING COLD FRONT. EXPECT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS IN THE 25 TO 35 MPH TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING...WITH SOME GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH POSSIBLE. THESE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THURSDAY MORNING. LOCAL VISIBILITY REDUCTIONS MAY OCCUR DUE TO BLOWING DUST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS SUSTAINED AT SPEEDS GREATER THAN 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
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, 10:33 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Cottle, Kent, King, Stonewall | 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.