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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 12, 2021, 4:43 PM CST for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2021, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2021, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Hale County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 12, 2:37 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 2:37 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 206 PM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 TXZ021>044-132015- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 206 PM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Thunderstorm chances will increase late this afternoon and continue tonight with the potential to bring all severe hazards. Hail up to 2 inches in diameter along with wind gusts to 65 mph will be possible. In addition, there will be a tornado threat, mainly north and east of a line from Dimmitt, to Plainview, to Paducah. Heavy rain across the far southeastern Texas Panhandle could also create localized flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Additional thunderstorms are expected to develop along a dryline Saturday, and these storms will also have the potential to become severe. To the west of the dryline, generally west of the I-27 corridor during mid to late afternoon Saturday, elevated fire weather conditions may develop due to the arrival of a dry air mass and increasing west winds. Elevated to critical fire weather conditions may develop areawide Sunday along with very strong winds. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed. Please relay any information about severe weather to the NWS while following local, state, and CDC guidelines.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 4:43 PM CST, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Hale, Lubbock | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 55 min |
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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.