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Wind Advisory 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 23, 2014, 11:27 AM CST for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2014, 11:27 AM CST (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
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, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
909 WWUS74 KLUB 231727 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1127 AM CST TUE DEC 23 2014 TXZ021>038-240000- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0021.141223T1727Z-141224T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- 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 1127 AM CST TUE DEC 23 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THE HIGHEST WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON FOLLOWED BY SLOWLY DIMINISHING SPEEDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 30 TO 38 MPH OUT OF THE NORTH TO NORTHWEST ARE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS...DRIVERS ON EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS WILL EXPERIENCE THE GREATEST IMPACT WITH THESE WINDS. ALSO...LOCALIZED BLOWING DUST WILL BE POSSIBLE IN DUST PRONE AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
002 WWUS74 KLUB 240006 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 606 PM CST TUE DEC 23 2014 TXZ021>038-240115- /O.EXP.KLUB.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-141224T0000Z/ PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...DIMMITT...HART... TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MEMPHIS...TURKEY...CHILDRESS... MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...OLTON...PLAINVIEW...FLOYDADA...LOCKNEY... MATADOR...ROARING SPRINGS...PADUCAH...MORTON...LEVELLAND... LUBBOCK...SLATON...WOLFFORTH...CROSBYTON...RALLS...DICKENS... SPUR...GUTHRIE 606 PM CST TUE DEC 23 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE GUSTY NORTH WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS AND WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE DURING THE EVENING HOURS. $$
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.