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While the June 5, 2013, Lubbock, TX, haboob was a single unreported incident, it’s not difficult to make the leap that there have been other storms that have been equally unreported. This concept opens up many possibilities in regard to future analysis, particularly, the possibility of developing an algorithm that identifies gust fronts as carriers of sand, dust, or dirt. With identification comes the potential for identifying historical events and thereby creating a haboob climatology. A time-lapse video from a TV news station in Lubbock caught the mud storm because […]