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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 22, 1992Bailey County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1992, 2:54 PM CDT for Bailey County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1992, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Bailey County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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.

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, May 22, 10:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 11:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 12:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 1:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 2:08 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
207 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS EXCEPT
   KENT AND KING COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 202 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
AND RAIN SHOWERS SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE
SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR MATADOR...NEAR
FLOYDADA...AND 15 MILES WEST OF BROWNFIELD.

ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING THE WESTERN
COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO.

MOVEMENT OF ALL STORMS WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY
WINDS MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STRONGER STORMS. IF
THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING OR
OTHER SHELTER.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

GW

Special weather statement, May 22, 2:51 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
250 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH
   PL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	60 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.