Lubbock Weather Forecast Office
The primary mission of NWS Lubbock is to provide weather forecasts and warnings for nearly 500,000 residents in the twenty-four counties of the west Texas South Plains. To accomplish this mission, NWS Lubbock issues watches, warnings, outlooks, and advisories for hazardous weather, and routinely issues public, aviation, and fire weather forecasts. NWS Lubbock staff members operate five NOAA All-Hazards Weather Radio transmitters, provide two continuously updated Terminal Airport Forecasts, provide maintenance for two Automated Surface Observing Stations and one wind profiler, and work with more than sixty volunteer cooperative observers. NWS Lubbock has led many of our agencyâs movements toward utilizing innovative tools and techniques in weather operations, such as: graphicasts, instant messaging, informative web-based data outlets, and annually provides customers free calendars filled with local weather facts, trivia, and photography.