Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at May 30, 2011, 5:46 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 30, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2011, 5:46 AM CDT (10:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 30, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 6247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
855 WWUS74 KLUB 301046 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 546 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2011 TXZ021>023-027-028-302115- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0021.110530T1600Z-110531T0100Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BAILEY-LAMB- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON 546 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING: WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS MORNING AND PERSIST THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE DIMINISHING TONIGHT. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BECOME SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS: STRONG CROSS WINDS ON NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST ORIENTED ROADS AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING DUST...PARTICULARLY NEAR OPEN FIELDS AND CONSTRUCTION SITES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
970 WWUS74 KLUB 302040 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 340 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2011 TXZ021>023-027-028-310100- /O.CON.KLUB.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-110531T0100Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BAILEY-LAMB- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON 340 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING: PERSISTING INTO EARLY EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS: STRONG CROSS WINDS ON NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST ORIENTED ROADS AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING DUST...PARTICULARLY NEAR OPEN FIELDS AND CONSTRUCTION SITES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS GREATER THAN 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
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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.