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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 1, 202310 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 1, 2023, 3:24 AM CST for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 1, 2023, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 7 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 1, 2023, 3:24 AM CST (09:24 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 1, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 1, 2023, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:23 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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 red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 28, 10:31 PM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 10:31 PM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 3:24 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza and 11 more	24 hr
Mar 1, 2:08 PM CST	High Wind Watch	LUB	Cochran, Crosby, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more	13 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.