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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this high wind warning at Jun 15, 2012, 2:15 AM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 70 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2012, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2012, 3:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Childress County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
256 WWUS74 KLUB 150715 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 215 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 2012 TXZ026-150900- /O.NEW.KLUB.HW.W.0004.120615T0715Z-120615T0900Z/ CHILDRESS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CHILDRESS 215 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. * TIMING...FROM 2 TO 4 AM. * WINDS...GUSTING AS HIGH AS 80 MPH...ASSOCIATED WITH A DECAYING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX. * IMPACTS...THE HIGH WINDS WILL BLOW POORLY SECURED OBJECTS OBJECTS AROUND AND CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AS WELL AS CREATE MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
033 WWUS74 KLUB 150825 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 325 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 2012 TXZ026-150930- /O.CAN.KLUB.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120615T0900Z/ CHILDRESS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CHILDRESS 325 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. EARLIER SEVERE WIND GUSTS....PRODUCED BY A DECAYING COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS...HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AS THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND MOVED EAST. THUS...THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd, Lubbock | 28 min |
| Jun 14, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby, Motley, Terry, Yoakum | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | LUB | Cochran, Crosby, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall and 2 more | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 9:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Crosby, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn | 110 min |
| Jun 14, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 10:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Lynn and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn, Terry | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent, King | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 12:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King, Stonewall | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Hall, King, Motley and 1 more | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 59 min |
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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.