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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Oct 4, 2012, 3:46 AM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 4, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2012, 3:46 AM CDT (08:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2012, 10:23 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Floyd 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), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
045 WWUS74 KLUB 040846 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 346 AM CDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...STRONG COLD FRONT TO BRING WINDY CONDITIONS TO THE SOUTH PLAINS... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS PUSHING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS EARLY THIS MORNING. WITH THE FRONT PUSHING SOUTH AT A RAPID PLACE...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL MOVE IN BEHIND THE FRONT WITH SUSTAINED SPEEDS IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE WITH HIGHER GUSTS. PATCHY BLOWING DUST MAY ALSO DEVELOP DUE TO THE STRONG WINDS. WIND SPEEDS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME TO BE QUITE AS STRONG OVER THE ROLLING PLAINS. TXZ021>024-027>030-033>035-039>041-041800- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0018.121004T0900Z-121004T1800Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK... SLATON...WOLFFORTH...PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA... ODONNELL 346 AM CDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND FAR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...A STRONG COLD FRONT IS ALREADY PUSHING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AS OF 3 AM. THIS FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REACH A MORTON...PLAINVIEW...TO SILVERTON LINE BY 4 AM...A PLAINS...LUBBOCK...TO TURKEY LINE BY 5 AM...AND THEN THROUGH ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS BEFORE SUNRISE. * WINDS...SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED HIGHWAYS SUCH AS HIGHWAY 380...TEXAS 114...AND HIGHWAY 84 CAN EXPECT STRONG CROSSWINDS. PATCHY BLOWING DUST WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ON THE CAPROCK...ESPECIALLY DOWNWIND OF OPEN FIELDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. REDUCED VISIBILITIES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO AREAS OF BLOWING DUST. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ JORDAN
1 follow-up statement
080 WWUS74 KLUB 041523 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1023 AM CDT THU OCT 4 2012 TXZ021>024-027>030-033>035-039>041-041630- /O.CAN.KLUB.WI.Y.0018.000000T0000Z-121004T1800Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON... PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK... SLATON...WOLFFORTH...PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA... ODONNELL 1023 AM CDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED SLIGHTLY AFTER THE INITIAL SURGE IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE THIS MORNING. WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING...SLOWLY DECREASING TO 10 TO 15 MPH BY LATE AFTERNOON. $$
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.