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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this fire weather watch at Apr 8, 2021, 2:21 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 9, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2021, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 9, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2021, 3:35 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 4722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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.