Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 27, 2011, 10:33 PM CST for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2011, 10:33 PM CST (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2011, 3:11 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 4297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 557 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
015 WWUS74 KLUB 280433 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1033 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 TXZ027>029-033>036-039>042-281200- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0005.110228T0433Z-110228T1200Z/ BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- GARZA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK...SLATON...WOLFFORTH... CROSBYTON...RALLS...PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA... ODONNELL...POST 1033 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST MONDAY. * TIMING: STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT. * WINDS: WESTERLY WINDS WILL REMAIN SUSTAINED AT SPEED THAT WILL INTERMITTENTLY EXCEED 30 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL CAUSE BLOWING DUST AND HAZARDOUS TRAVEL. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
310 WWUS74 KLUB 280911 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 311 AM CST MON FEB 28 2011 TXZ027>029-033>036-039>042-281015- /O.CAN.KLUB.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-110228T1200Z/ BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- GARZA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK...SLATON...WOLFFORTH... CROSBYTON...RALLS...PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA... ODONNELL...POST 311 AM CST MON FEB 28 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED TO THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE AND ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE FURTHER LATER THIS MORNING. $$
Nearby
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.