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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 15, 2019, 3:13 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 15, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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 15, 2019, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2019, 8:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 3013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.