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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this high wind watch at Mar 22, 2024, 3:37 AM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 24, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2024, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2024, 3:36 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
All 21 counties
Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 22, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 4:08 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Floyd, Hale and 8 more | 34 hr |
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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.