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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 1, 1990King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1990, 3:52 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1990, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County King 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

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 254 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1510 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 238 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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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 31, 8:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBFloyd3 hr
May 31, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock59 min
May 31, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley60 min
May 31, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle58 min
May 31, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle44 min
Jun 1, 5:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock63 min
Jun 1, 6:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd61 min
Jun 1, 8:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent68 min
Jun 1, 11:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza68 min
Jun 1, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza61 min
Jun 1, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent57 min
Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza60 min
Jun 1, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing56 min
Jun 1, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent56 min
Jun 1, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.