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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 29, 202311 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 29, 2023, 4:36 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 30, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 2023, 4:36 AM CDT (09:36 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 30, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 30, 2023, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
10 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, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 409 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2023-03-29Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2023-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 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
3411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 4:36 AM CDTFire Weather WatchLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more24 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.