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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

January 30, 20165 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 30, 2016, 12:31 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 30, 2016, 2:00 PM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 30, 2016, 12:31 PM CST (18:31 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 30, 2016, 2:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 30, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Hall County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-01-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-01-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

321 
WWUS74 KLUB 301831
NPWLUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1231 PM CST SAT JAN 30 2016

TXZ021>025-310000-
/O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0002.160130T2000Z-160131T0000Z/
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIONA...BOVINA...FARWELL...DIMMITT...
HART...TULIA...SILVERTON...QUITAQUE...MEMPHIS
1231 PM CST SAT JAN 30 2016

...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...NOW UNTIL 6 PM CST.

* WINDS...SOUTHWEST FROM 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH.

* IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON NORTH TO SOUTH ROADS WILL
  EXPERIENCE TRAVEL DIFFICULTY FROM STRONG CROSSWINDS. BLOWING
  DUST IS ALSO LIKELY IN SOME AREAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH ARE
EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...
ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 30, 6:27 AM CSTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more12 hr

Nearby

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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.