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Dust Storm Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this dust storm warning at Mar 18, 2014, 5:16 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 104 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2014, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 104 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Hall County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 2632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dust storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dust storm warning went out at Mar 18, 3:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 3:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 4:26 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 16 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:06 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:49 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 7 hr |
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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.