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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

January 22, 201016 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 22, 2010, 4:26 AM CST for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 22, 2010, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 22, 2010, 4:26 AM CST (10:26 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 22, 2010, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 22, 2010, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 2974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jan 22, 4:09 AM CST, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 4:09 AM CST, 17 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
Jan 22, 2:50 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale and 6 more	3 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Texas, 2010 Every wind advisory in 2010

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.