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High Wind Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this high wind warning at Jun 16, 2012, 1:12 AM CDT for Briscoe County, Castro County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 108 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 16, 2012, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 108 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:14 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1006 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
556 WWUS74 KLUB 160612 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 112 AM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012 TXZ022>024-160800- /O.NEW.KLUB.HW.W.0005.120616T0612Z-120616T0800Z/ CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DIMMITT...HART...TULIA...SILVERTON... QUITAQUE 112 AM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. * TIMING...FROM NOW UNTIL 3 AM CDT. * WINDS...GUSTING AS HIGH AS 80 MPH...ASSOCIATED WITH A DECAYING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX. * IMPACTS...THE HIGH WINDS WILL BLOW POORLY SECURED 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
983 WWUS74 KLUB 160750 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 250 AM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012 TXZ022>024-160900- /O.EXP.KLUB.HW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120616T0800Z/ CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DIMMITT...HART...TULIA...SILVERTON... QUITAQUE 250 AM CDT SAT JUN 16 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 3 AM CDT THIS MORNING... STRONG...GUSTY WINDS FROM A DECAYING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX HAVE DIMNISHED AND THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS IN THE AREA AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH THROUGH 4 AM. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Parmer | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 8:40 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Lubbock and 2 more | 80 min |
| Jun 15, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, Yoakum | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 10:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe, Crosby, Floyd, Lubbock | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 3 more | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Castro | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 2:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 2:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lamb | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Dickens | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley, Lynn, Terry | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King, Stonewall | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Dickens | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lynn | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza, Kent | 29 min |
Nearby
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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.