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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 6, 20266 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 6, 2026, 4:32 AM CST for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2026, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 2026, 4:32 AM CST (10:32 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 6, 2026, 11:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 758 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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 5, 11:06 PM CST, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 11:06 PM CST, 5 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 5, 11:03 PM CST, 5 hours 29 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 5, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	49 min
Mar 5, 7:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	32 min
Mar 5, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	47 min

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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.