{"id":171548,"date":"2026-02-19T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171548\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:44:10","slug":"crazy-dust-storm-creates-apocalyptic-scenes-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171548\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Crazy&#8217; Dust Storm Creates Apocalyptic Scenes in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A massive dust storm enveloped the city of Lubbock in west Texas on Tuesday, February 17, as dry and windy conditions prompted weather officials to issue a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSLubbock\/status\/2023838965455839408\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Red Flag Warning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Red Flag Warning<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSLubbock\/status\/2023658053304799667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Blowing Dust Advisory;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Blowing Dust Advisory<\/a> in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWinds will be out of the southwest around 25-35 mph with gusts as high as 60 mph possible,\u201d the National Weather Service <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSLubbock\/status\/2023658053304799667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:warned.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">warned.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This video posted by Justin Lowrey shows blowing dust limiting visibility on roads in south Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is as bad as I\u2019ve seen it,\u201d Lowrey says in the video. \u201cThis is crazy. You literally can\u2019t see in front of you,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire risk remained high on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSLubbock\/status\/2024046775615553591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wednesday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wednesday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSLubbock\/status\/2024205621134786932\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thursday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thursday<\/a> as dry, windy conditions continued. Credit: Justin Lowrey via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive dust storm enveloped the city of Lubbock in west Texas on Tuesday, February 17, as dry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[994,69382,168,170,169,1971,18400,69381],"class_list":{"0":"post-171548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-city-of-lubbock","9":"tag-justin-lowrey","10":"tag-lubbock","11":"tag-lubbock-headlines","12":"tag-lubbock-news","13":"tag-national-weather-service","14":"tag-red-flag-warning","15":"tag-windy-conditions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}