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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

January 17, 201924 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 17, 2019, 2:19 PM CST for 24 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 18, 2019, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 2019, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 18, 2019, 11:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 19, 2019, 2:37 AM CST
In force: 16 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 20:20 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 12:00Z, 8.3 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.

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: 2034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 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 wind 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 advisory went out at Jan 17, 11:31 AM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 11:31 AM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 17, 10:27 AM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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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.