Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 10, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 11, 2012, 4:40 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 11, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2012, 4:40 AM CDT (09:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
256 WWUS74 KLUB 110940 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 440 AM CDT SUN MAR 11 2012 TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-112100- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0010.120311T1700Z-120312T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK... SLATON...WOLFFORTH...CROSBYTON...RALLS 440 AM CDT SUN MAR 11 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWESTERLY BETWEEN 30 AND 35 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS NEAR 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BECOME DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. && $$
1 follow-up statement
488 WWUS74 KLUB 112007 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 307 PM CDT SUN MAR 11 2012 TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-120000- /O.CON.KLUB.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-120312T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK... SLATON...WOLFFORTH...CROSBYTON...RALLS 307 PM CDT SUN MAR 11 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTHWESTERLY BETWEEN 30 AND 35 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS NEAR 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BECOME DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. && $$
Nearby
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.