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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 18, 201916 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at May 18, 2019, 10:56 AM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 18, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 2019, 10:56 AM CDT (15:56 UTC)
In effect from
May 18, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 18, 2019, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:56 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1405 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 5:18 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBStonewall85 min

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.