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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 15, 2012Childress County, Texas

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 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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2012-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1334 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2012-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock45 min
Jun 14, 7:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBFloyd, Lubbock28 min
Jun 14, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock60 min
Jun 14, 7:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby, Motley, Terry, Yoakum23 min
Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryLUBCochran, Crosby, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more63 min
Jun 14, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall41 min
Jun 14, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall and 2 more57 min
Jun 14, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock67 min
Jun 14, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall60 min
Jun 14, 9:10 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCrosby, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn110 min
Jun 14, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Motley65 min
Jun 14, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall58 min
Jun 14, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry56 min
Jun 14, 10:26 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCottle, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Lynn and 2 more3 hr
Jun 14, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn, Terry60 min
Jun 14, 10:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBKent, King33 min
Jun 15, 12:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBKent, Stonewall45 min
Jun 15, 12:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBKing, Stonewall28 min
Jun 15, 1:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress, Cottle, Dickens, Hall, King, Motley and 1 more29 min
Jun 15, 2:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall, Motley59 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.