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Fire Weather Watch 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this fire weather watch at Mar 17, 2012, 3:28 PM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 18, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2012, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2012, 3:27 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1481 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Mar 17, 12:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 12:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 8:26 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 11:20 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Parmer | 9 hr |
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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.