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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1989, 1:04 AM CDT for Cottle County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1989, 1:04 AM CDT (06:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1989, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cottle County, TX, Motley 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1774 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 7:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1132 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR HALE... FLOYD...MOTLEY...AND COTTLE COUNTIES... AT 1130 PM CDT THERE WERE NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ON THE SOUTH PLAINS. RADAR WAS INDICATING AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE PANHANDLE. A FEW OF THESE WERE SEVERE AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY THREATEN THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE SOUTH PLAINS WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cottle | 3 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.