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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Lubbock, TX

November 29, 201915 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Nov 29, 2019, 2:14 PM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 30, 2019, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 29, 2019, 2:14 PM CST (20:14 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 30, 2019, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Nov 30, 2019, 5:58 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 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 Nov 29, 11:56 AM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 11:56 AM CST, 2 hours 18 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
Nov 29, 2:01 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more	12 hr
Nov 29, 2:14 PM CST	High Wind Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Floyd, Hale and 5 more	14 hr
Nov 29, 5:38 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LUB	Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 14 more	10 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.