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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 29, 1987Lubbock County, Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1987, 4:37 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1987, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1987, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lubbock County, TX, Lynn 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 12:00Z on 1987-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 781 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1987-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
781 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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
Jun 29, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens68 min

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.