Welcome...
...to the National Weather Service – Lubbock, Texas, Station Digest! This
digest offers qualified and motivated prospective applicants for vacancies at
our office a glimpse at life and work in Lubbock. If you are considering a
bid on a National Weather Service - Lubbock job announcement as
advertised on the USAJobs website, please enjoy the following pages and
review the informative links enclosed. We thank you for your interest in
joining our team!
NWS Lubbock is located at 2579
South Loop 289 in Lubbock, Texas.
Unique Work Opportunities & Office Culture
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 agency’s 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.
NWS Lubbock, Texas
2009 Station Digest
Digest Contents
Welcome
1
Work opportunities
1-2
Award Winning Public
Service
2
Weather & Climate
3
Quality of Life
3
Economy & Cost of
Living
4
an introduction to service and life on the South Plains
NWS Lubbock conducts operations from the
east wing of Lubbock’s Science Spectrum &
Omni Theater. Our staff received an NWS
Regional Cline Award for maintaining one of
the museum’s 250 hand