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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 6, 20224 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 6, 2022, 3:31 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2022, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 2022, 3:31 AM CST (09:31 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 6, 2022, 1:00 PM CST
Expired
Mar 6, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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, 9.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2022-03-06Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2022-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
4925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 5, 11:42 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 11:42 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 5, 6:02 PM CST, 9 hours 29 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
602 PM CST Sat Mar 5 2022

TXZ021>044-070015-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
602 PM CST Sat Mar 5 2022

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling
Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.

Critical fire weather conditions are likely to develop Sunday
afternoon generally along and west of a line from Tulia to Floydada
to Post. A Fire Weather Watch is in effect from noon to 8 PM Sunday
for the South Plains and the extreme southwestern Panhandle.

Beyond Sunday, the probability for widespread hazardous weather is
low.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 3:34 AM CSTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd, Garza and 9 more16 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.