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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2021, 8:21 AM CST for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2021, 8:21 AM CST (14:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2021, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:22 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
777 WWUS74 KLUB 051421 NPWLUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Lubbock TX 821 AM CST Fri Mar 5 2021 TXZ021>023-027>029-033>035-039>041-051800- /O.NEW.KLUB.WI.Y.0004.210305T1421Z-210305T1800Z/ Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn- Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, Farwell, Dimmitt, Hart, Tulia, Happy, Muleshoe, Littlefield, Amherst, Olton, Plainview, Hale Center, Morton, Whiteface, Levelland, Sundown, Lubbock, Wolfforth, Slaton, Denver City, Plains, Brownfield, Meadow, Wellman, Tahoka, New Home, and ODonnell 821 AM CST Fri Mar 5 2021 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and the Panhandle of Texas. * WHEN...Until noon CST today. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. A few power outages are possible. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Patchy blowing dust will lower visibilities to locally less than a mile next to open fields and construction activity/ PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects. && $$
Nearby
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.