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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 13, 1989Garza County, Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1989, 12:14 AM CDT for Garza County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1989, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1989, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Garza County, TX, Lubbock 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 1989-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 483 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 00:00Z on 1989-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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 12, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley65 min
Jun 12, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey59 min
Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb59 min
Jun 12, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBMotley69 min
Jun 12, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale59 min
Jun 12, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza56 min
Jun 12, 10:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBHale3 hr
Jun 12, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley59 min
Jun 12, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby64 min
Jun 12, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock64 min
Jun 12, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza57 min
Jun 12, 11:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBMotley3 hr
Jun 12, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens55 min
Jun 12, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, King66 min
Jun 12, 11:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Lubbock3 hr
Jun 12, 11:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBDickens3 hr
Jun 13, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens49 min
Jun 13, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza59 min
Jun 13, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza62 min
Jun 13, 2:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCottle, Dickens, King, Motley3 hr
Jun 13, 2:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Garza, Kent3 hr
Jun 13, 2:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBFloyd, Lubbock3 hr

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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.