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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 13, 2014, 3:48 PM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 14, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2014, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 14, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2014, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 3337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 13, 3:40 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 3:40 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 3:48 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 348 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014 TXZ021>044-142100- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 348 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FIRE WEATHER GUSTY...DRY AND WARM WESTERLY WINDS WILL RESULT IN ELEVATED TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS...ROLLING PLAINS...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE. A FIRE DANGER STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE GUSTY WINDS COULD ALSO CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST. NON PRECIPITATION A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WILL THEN PLUNGE THROUGH THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS THIS EVENING WITH STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS AND BLOWING DUST. WINDS WILL BECOME SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH...IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL CARRY IN MUCH COLDER CANADIAN AIR...WITH A LIGHT FREEZE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST SOUTH PLAINS EARLY MONDAY MORNING. A FREEZE WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR FOR PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS...WHERE THEY HAVE PASSED THEIR AVERAGE LAST FREEZE DATES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 5:44 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:01 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | LUB | Cochran, Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lamb | 10 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:01 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | LUB | Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 13 more | 32 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:48 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more | 14 hr |
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.