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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 12, 202510 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 12, 2025, 1:20 AM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 12, 2025, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2025, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 12, 2025, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 12, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:18 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 420 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-03-12Temperature 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
3402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
320 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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 11, 9:31 PM CDTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 16 more22 hr
Mar 12, 1:20 AM CDTHigh Wind WatchLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more26 hr
Mar 12, 1:49 AM CDTFire Weather WatchLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more26 hr
Mar 12, 2:26 PM CDTFire Weather WatchLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more13 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.