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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 22, 1987Crosby County, Dickens County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1987, 11:38 PM CDT for Crosby County, Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1987, 11:38 PM CDT (04:38 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1987, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crosby County, TX, Dickens 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 998 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 22, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley65 min
May 22, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley60 min
May 22, 8:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBHockley2 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.