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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Lubbock, TX

December 15, 201010 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 15, 2010, 11:22 AM CST for 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 15, 2010, 11:22 AM CST (17:22 UTC)
Expired
Dec 15, 2010, 6:04 PM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-12-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-12-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
5368 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 15, 3:51 AM CSTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more14 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Texas, 2010Every 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.