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High Wind Warning 6, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this high wind warning at Dec 14, 2012, 7:00 AM CST for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 14, 2012, 2:00 PM CST. It was in force for 4 hr. 15 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2012, 7:00 AM CST (13:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 14, 2012, 2:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:57 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2:50 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 65 | 2 Ssw Muleshoe, TX | |
| Dec 14, 2:59 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 66 | Lazbuddie, TX | SCHOOLNET AT LAZBUDDIE |
| Dec 14, 3:10 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 58 | 1 Ne Amherst, TX | |
| Dec 14, 3:12 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 64 | Friona, TX | FRIONA HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOLNET |
| Dec 14, 3:16 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 59 | Dimmitt, TX | DIMMIT MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHOOLNET |
| Dec 14, 3:20 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 74 | 2 Ne Dimmitt, TX | |
| Dec 14, 3:25 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 S Sudan, TX | POWER LINES DOWN AT 303 AND 37 |
| Dec 14, 3:30 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 62 | 4 S Levelland, TX | |
| Dec 14, 3:32 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 63 | Hart, TX | HART ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNET |
| Dec 14, 4:04 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 61 | Lubbock, TX | AT KCBD |
| Dec 14, 4:05 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 77 | 3 Wnw Lubbock, TX | |
| Dec 14, 4:06 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Lubbock, TX | POWERLINES DOWN ON WOODROW ROAD |
| Dec 14, 4:10 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 61 | 2 Ne Friona, TX | |
| Dec 14, 4:11 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 E Shallowater, TX | POWERLINES DOWN NEAR CORN MAZE ON 1294 |
| Dec 14, 4:50 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Lubbock, TX | LRG TREE DOWN AND FENCE DAMAGE 2800 BLK GRINNELL NEAR DETROIT AVE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
105 WWUS74 KLUB 141300 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 700 AM CST FRI DEC 14 2012 TXZ021>023-027>029-033>035-039>041-142330- /O.UPG.KLUB.HW.A.0004.121214T1800Z-121215T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KLUB.HW.W.0006.121214T2000Z-121215T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON...PLAINVIEW...MORTON... LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK...SLATON...WOLFFORTH...PLAINS...DENVER CITY... BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA...ODONNELL 700 AM CST FRI DEC 14 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM UNTIL 6 PM CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * EVENT...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP EAST ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON ACCOMPANIED BY FAST-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. BEHIND THIS FRONT...WIDESPREAD STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING NON- THUNDERSTORM WINDS WILL DEVELOP. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN GENERATE LARGE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST THAT MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS NEAR OPEN FIELDS AND CONSTRUCTION SITES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... OUTDOOR OBJECTS SUCH AS HOLIDAY DECORATIONS...TRASH CANS OR LIGHTWEIGHT FURNITURE SHOULD BE SECURED OR BROUGHT INDOORS. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS LIKELY OR IS ALREADY OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 4 more | 60 min |
| Dec 14, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer | 32 min |
| Dec 14, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock and 1 more | 35 min |
| Dec 14, 3:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lynn | 30 min |
| Dec 14, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock and 1 more | 28 min |
| Dec 14, 4:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 36 min |
| Dec 14, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Crosby, Floyd, Hall, Lubbock, Motley | 32 min |
| Dec 14, 4:39 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Hall, Kent, King and 2 more | 21 min |
| Dec 14, 4:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 24 min |
| Dec 14, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Hall, King, Motley | 29 min |
| Dec 14, 5:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle, King, Stonewall | 30 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.