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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this freeze watch at Apr 19, 2021, 3:14 AM CDT for 17 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 20, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2021, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2021, 1:51 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 3111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Apr 19, 12:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 12:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:51 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 15 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:51 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Hockley and 6 more | 20 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:51 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 22 hr |
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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.