Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 16, 2012, 3:47 AM CST for 24 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 16, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 2012, 3:47 AM CST (09:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
All 24 counties
Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 3661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
570 WWUS74 KLUB 160947 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 347 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012 TXZ021>044-170000- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0002.120116T1700Z-120117T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MEMPHIS...TURKEY...CHILDRESS... MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON...PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY... MATADOR...ROARING SPRINGS...PADUCAH...MORTON...LEVELLAND... LUBBOCK...SLATON...WOLFFORTH...CROSBYTON...RALLS...DICKENS... SPUR...GUTHRIE...PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA... ODONNELL...POST...JAYTON...ASPERMONT 347 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE AROUND 11AM THEN DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET * WINDS...WIND SPEEDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH ESPECIALLY WEST OF THE CAPROCK ESCARPMENT. * IMPACTS...LOCALIZED BLOWING DUST MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY AS WELL AS MAKE DRIVING MORE CHALLENGING...PARTICULARLY ON NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ORIENTED ROADS SUCH AS U.S. HIGHWAYS 84 AND 70. 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.