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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 23, 2012, 5:13 AM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 23, 2012, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2012, 5:13 AM CST (11:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2012, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2012, 3:48 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 4096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
709 WWUS84 KLUB 231113 RFWLUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 513 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 TXZ027-028-033>035-039>042-240000- /O.UPG.KLUB.FW.A.0005.120223T1700Z-120224T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KLUB.FW.W.0005.120223T1500Z-120224T0000Z/ BAILEY-LAMB-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA- 513 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR GREATER... RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS AND VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER FROM THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS INTO THE SOUTHERN ROLLING PLAINS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * WIND...WEST TO NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH STRONGER GUSTS AT THE 20 FOOT LEVEL. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH OR NORTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...FALLING TO 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ TXZ021-022-029-036-043-044-240000- /O.NEW.KLUB.FW.W.0005.120223T1500Z-120224T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-HALE-CROSBY-KENT-STONEWALL- 513 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR GREATER... RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS AND VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER FROM THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS INTO THE SOUTHERN ROLLING PLAINS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WIND...WEST TO NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH STRONGER GUSTS AT THE 20 FOOT LEVEL. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH OR NORTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...FALLING TO 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
704 WWUS84 KLUB 232148 RFWLUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 348 PM CST THU FEB 23 2012 TXZ021-022-027>029-033>036-039>044-232300- /O.CAN.KLUB.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120224T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 348 PM CST THU FEB 23 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. BREEZY NORTHERLY WINDS NEAR 20 MPH AT THE 20 FOOT LEVEL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING...HOWEVER COOLER AND MORE MOIST AIR IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ABOVE 20 PERCENT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 10:27 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 5 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.