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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this winter storm watch at Jan 8, 2021, 3:36 AM CST for 22 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 9, 2021, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2021, 3:36 AM CST (09:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2021, 1:43 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
All 22 counties
Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:35 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 2602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 5:24 AM CST | Freezing Fog Advisory | LUB | Cochran, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley and 5 more | 4 hr |
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.