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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 20, 202121 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 20, 2021, 12:50 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 21, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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 20, 2021, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 21, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 21, 2021, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
All 21 counties

Briscoe 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, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher 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 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2021-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2021-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -141 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

784 
WWUS74 KLUB 201750
NPWLUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1250 PM CDT Tue Apr 20 2021

TXZ023>026-028>044-211100-
/O.UPG.KLUB.FZ.A.0002.210421T0600Z-210421T1400Z/
/O.NEW.KLUB.FZ.W.0002.210421T0600Z-210421T1400Z/
Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-Motley-Cottle-
Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-
Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
Including the cities of Turkey, Guthrie, Denver City, Silverton,
Lubbock, Cee Vee, Plains, Spur, Whiteface, Dickens, Matador,
Kirkland, Happy, Wolfforth, Quitaque, Lockney, ODonnell, Slaton,
New Home, Lake Alan Henry, Olton, Hale Center, Dumont, Post,
Memphis, Jayton, Sundown, Tulia, Childress, Paducah, Littlefield,
Wellman, Plainview, Aspermont, Meadow, Old Glory, Roaring
Springs, Crosbyton, Brownfield, Floydada, Tahoka, Ralls,
Levelland, Amherst, and Morton
1250 PM CDT Tue Apr 20 2021

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT WEDNESDAY...

* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 are possible.

* WHERE...Portions of the southern Panhandle of Texas, South Plains 
  and Rolling Plains.

* WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Wednesday.

* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other 
  sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor 
  plumbing.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.

&&

$$

JM
1 follow-up statement
747 
WWUS74 KLUB 210829
NPWLUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
329 AM CDT Wed Apr 21 2021

TXZ023>026-028>044-211400-
/O.CON.KLUB.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-210421T1400Z/
Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-Motley-Cottle-
Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-
Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
Including the cities of Turkey, Guthrie, Denver City, Silverton,
Lubbock, Cee Vee, Plains, Spur, Whiteface, Dickens, Matador,
Kirkland, Happy, Wolfforth, Quitaque, Lockney, ODonnell, Slaton,
New Home, Lake Alan Henry, Olton, Hale Center, Dumont, Post,
Memphis, Jayton, Sundown, Tulia, Childress, Paducah, Littlefield,
Wellman, Plainview, Aspermont, Meadow, Old Glory, Roaring
Springs, Crosbyton, Brownfield, Floydada, Tahoka, Ralls,
Levelland, Amherst, and Morton
329 AM CDT Wed Apr 21 2021

...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...

* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28.

* WHERE...The Rolling Plains and much of the South Plains and 
  extreme southern Panhandle.

* WHEN...Until 9 AM CDT this morning.

* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other 
  sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor 
  plumbing.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.

&&

$$

07

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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.