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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 1, 1986Dickens County, Kent County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1986, 7:47 PM CDT for Dickens County, Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 1, 1986, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired
Oct 1, 1986, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dickens County, TX, Kent County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1673 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 1, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent54 min
Oct 1, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing57 min
Oct 1, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd56 min
Oct 2, 2:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock3 hr
Oct 2, 5:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBFloyd3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.