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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Lubbock, TX

February 21, 202311 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 21, 2023, 2:16 AM CST for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 21, 2023, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 2023, 2:16 AM CST (08:16 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 21, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 21, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 436 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 2023-02-21Temperature 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 2023-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
2425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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 Feb 20, 10:31 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 10:31 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 2:25 AM CSTFire Weather WatchLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more25 hr
Feb 21, 2:25 AM CSTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 15 more17 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.