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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 22, 2012, 9:38 AM CDT for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2012, 9:38 AM CDT (14:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hall County, TX, King County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 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 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
500 WWUS74 KLUB 221438 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 938 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2012 TXZ024>026-030>032-036>038-221800- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0012.120322T1438Z-120322T1800Z/ BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MEMPHIS... TURKEY...CHILDRESS...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MATADOR... ROARING SPRINGS...PADUCAH...CROSBYTON...RALLS...DICKENS...SPUR... GUTHRIE 938 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...LATE THIS MORNING UNTIL EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG WIND GUSTS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO TRAVELERS. LOCAL VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS FROM BLOWING DUST MAY DROP TO UNDER A MILE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
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.