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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 18, 2012Childress County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2012, 10:32 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 2012, 10:32 PM CDT (03:32 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 2012, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

County Childress County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 2012-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2012-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

012 
WWUS84 KLUB 190332
SPSLUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1032 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012

TXZ026-032-190400-
CHILDRESS-COTTLE-
1032 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COTTLE  AND CHILDRESS 
COUNTIES...

AT 1029 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF CHILDRESS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS SPEEDS UP TO 40 MPH...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS
PASSED.

LAT...LON 3418 10032 3429 10041 3444 10035 3467 10008
      3456 9999 3426 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 0332Z 226DEG 40KT 3429 10021

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock65 min
Mar 18, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock30 min
Mar 18, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale59 min
Mar 18, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall41 min
Mar 18, 8:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby35 min
Mar 18, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall15 min
Mar 18, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall12 min
Mar 18, 9:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBMotley12 min
Mar 18, 9:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBMotley23 min
Mar 18, 10:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHockley, Terry, Yoakum26 min
Mar 18, 10:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress34 min
Mar 18, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Terry, Yoakum58 min
Mar 18, 10:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLamb25 min
Mar 18, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb30 min
Mar 18, 11:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHockley, Terry21 min
Mar 18, 11:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher31 min
Mar 18, 11:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHale25 min
Mar 18, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, Yoakum61 min
Mar 18, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb60 min
Mar 19, 12:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Lubbock and 2 more60 min
Mar 19, 1:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hall and 2 more33 min
Mar 19, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hall, Motley53 min
Mar 19, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall52 min
Mar 19, 3:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress, Cottle, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King and 1 more30 min
Mar 19, 3:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCottle, Dickens, Kent, King, Motley, Stonewall39 min
Mar 19, 4:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBDickens, Kent, King40 min
Mar 19, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCochran25 min
Mar 19, 3:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHockley, Lamb23 min
Mar 19, 4:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHockley, Lamb30 min
Mar 19, 4:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHale28 min
Mar 19, 5:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBailey37 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.