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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 1, 2012, 7:15 AM CST for 14 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 1, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2012, 7:15 AM CST (13:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 1, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2012, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey 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, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 4093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
090 WWUS74 KLUB 011315 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 715 AM CST THU MAR 1 2012 TXZ021>023-027>030-033>036-039>041-020100- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0008.120301T1700Z-120302T0100Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY- LUBBOCK-CROSBY-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON...PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA... LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK...SLATON...WOLFFORTH... CROSBYTON...RALLS...PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA... ODONNELL 715 AM CST THU MAR 1 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 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 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP LATE IN THE MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * WINDS...WESTERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS...THE WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES... PARTICULARLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. BLOWING DUST WILL ALSO REDUCE VISIBILITY. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
375 WWUS74 KLUB 020057 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 657 PM CST THU MAR 1 2012 TXZ021>023-027>030-033>036-039>041-020200- /O.EXP.KLUB.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-120302T0100Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY- LUBBOCK-CROSBY-YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON...PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA... LOCKNEY...MORTON...LEVELLAND...LUBBOCK...SLATON...WOLFFORTH... CROSBYTON...RALLS...PLAINS...DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA... ODONNELL 657 PM CST THU MAR 1 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... WIND SPEEDS HAVE GENERALLY DIMINISH TO SUSTAINED SPEEDS LESS THAN 30 MPH...AND WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING HOURS. THUS THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST. $$
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.