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Wind Chill Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

January 15, 202410 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind chill warning at Jan 15, 2024, 3:03 AM CST for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 15, 2024, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 9 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
Jan 15, 2024, 3:03 AM CST (09:03 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 15, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 16, 2024, 2:35 AM CST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

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

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-01-15Temperature 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-01-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 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
1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 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
Jan 15, 3:03 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more31 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Warnings in Texas, 2024Every wind chill warning in 2024

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.