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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this winter storm warning at Dec 23, 2009, 4:09 PM CST for 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 24 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
- Dec 23, 2009, 4:09 PM CST (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2009, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
All 23 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, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 23, 4:05 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 4:05 PM CST, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 4:02 PM CST, 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 402 PM CST WED DEC 23 2009 TXZ021>044-242215- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 402 PM CST WED DEC 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WINTER WEATHER WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT. SNOWFALL... NOW ONGOING OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS...WILL GRADUALLY OVERSPREAD THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION THIS EVENING. A PERIOD OF HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS BY LATE EVENING...AND PERSIST NORTHEASTWARD TOWARD THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS OVERNIGHT. WIDESPREAD ONE INCH ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED...WITH A BROAD AREA OF 3 TO 6 INCH ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED OVER THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS...AND THE SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS BY THURSDAY MORNING. LOCALIZED HIGHER SNOW TOTALS ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE REFER TO THE CURRENT WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES FOR COUNTY SPECIFIC FORECASTS AND IMPACTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY TONIGHT/S WINTER STORM WILL LINGER INTO THURSDAY MORNING... ESPECIALLY OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS. NORTHERLY WINDS SUSTAINED AROUND 30 MPH WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW THERE BETWEEN SUNRISE AND MIDDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY REPORTS OF SNOWFALL AND PUBLIC IMPACTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 10:56 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 24 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Texas, 2009Every winter storm warning in 2009
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.