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Blowing Dust Advisory 4, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 14, 201118 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this blowing dust advisory at Apr 14, 2011, 5:19 AM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 14, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2011, 5:19 AM CDT (10:19 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 14, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 14, 2011, 4:02 PM CDT
In force: 4 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, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 438 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: 3157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 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 blowing dust 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 blowing dust advisory went out at Apr 14, 5:19 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 5:19 AM CDT, 0 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 14, 5:19 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Floyd, Hale, Hall and 4 more	11 hr
Apr 14, 5:19 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 17 more	15 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.