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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 17, 2016, 4:13 AM CST for 24 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 17, 2016, 10:28 AM CST. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2016, 4:13 AM CST (10:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 17, 2016, 10:28 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2016, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
All 24 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, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:12 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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 2492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Dec 17, 4:02 AM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 4:02 AM CST, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 16, 6:00 PM CST, 10 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 600 PM CST FRI DEC 16 2016 TXZ021>044-180000- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 600 PM CST FRI DEC 16 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS...ROLLING PLAINS AND THE FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY STRONG WESTERLY WINDS SUSTAINED NEAR 30 MPH MAY DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS ON SATURDAY...AND CONTRIBUTE TO AN ELEVATED WILDFIRE DANGER. MEANWHILE...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CRAWL SOUTH THROUGH THE DAY AHEAD OF TEMPERATURES PLUMMETING TO BELOW FREEZING BEFORE SUNSET...BITTERLY COLD WIND CHILLS AND EVEN A LIGHT WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FROM A DUSTING TO 1/2 INCH APPEAR MOST LIKELY ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT AREAS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 4:00 AM CST | High Wind Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum | 10 hr |
| Dec 17, 4:00 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 14 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.