| Event | Heat Advisory |
| Severity | Moderate |
| Urgency | Expected |
| Certainty | Likely |
| Area | Briscoe; Hall; Childress; Motley; Cottle; Dickens; King; Garza; Kent; Stonewall |
| Effective | 8/17/2026, 11:59:00 AM CDT |
| Expires | 8/18/2026, 1:00:00 AM CDT |
Heat Advisory issued August 17 at 11:59AM CDT until August 18 at 8:00PM CDT by NWS Lubbock TX
Details
* WHAT…Temperatures up to 109 expected.
* WHERE…Rolling Plains, Briscoe, Hall, Childress, and Garza
Counties.
* WHEN…From 1 PM to 8 PM CDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS…Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses.
Instructions
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.
This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.
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