{"id":171763,"date":"2026-02-19T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:12:08","slug":"massive-dust-storm-envelops-lubbock-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171763\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Dust Storm Envelops Lubbock, Texas"},"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\">Video captured by Britta Foshee shows blowing dust limiting visibility on roads on the west side of Lubbock.<\/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\/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: Britta Foshee 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":171764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[994,69100,168,170,169,1971,18400,58598,69381],"class_list":{"0":"post-171763","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-dust-storm","10":"tag-lubbock","11":"tag-lubbock-headlines","12":"tag-lubbock-news","13":"tag-national-weather-service","14":"tag-red-flag-warning","15":"tag-weather-officials","16":"tag-windy-conditions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171763","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=171763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}