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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 12, 202524 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this high wind watch at Mar 12, 2025, 1:20 AM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2025, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 13, 2025, 3:06 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

All 24 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, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 12, 12:36 AM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 12:36 AM CDT, 44 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 11, 9:31 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 16 more	22 hr
Mar 12, 1:20 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LUB	Cochran, Crosby, Garza, Hockley, Kent, Lubbock and 4 more	18 hr
Mar 12, 1:49 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	26 hr
Mar 12, 2:26 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more	13 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Texas, 2025 Every high wind watch in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.