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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

February 10, 201918 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 10, 2019, 2:30 PM CST for 18 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 11, 2019, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 7 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 10, 2019, 2:30 PM CST (20:30 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 11, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 11, 2019, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 11, 4:10 PM CST	HIGH SUST WINDS 40	1 Ne Amherst, TX
Feb 11, 5:04 PM CST	NON-TSTM WND DMG	2 Se Lubbock, TX	BROKEN POWER POLE AT HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY.
Feb 11, 5:07 PM CST	NON-TSTM WND DMG	1 Ese Downtown Lubbock, TX	DOWNED POWER LINE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 10, 2:27 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 2:27 PM CST, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 10, 3:20 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 16 more	24 hr
Feb 10, 2:25 PM CST	High Wind Watch	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Garza, Hale and 7 more	13 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.