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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 27, 1994Cottle County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 6:52 AM CDT for Cottle County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 1994, 6:52 AM CDT (11:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 1994, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Cottle County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Apr 27, 4:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-039>042-045>047-271005-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
404 AM CDT WED APR 27 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTH PLAINS...

AT 400 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER SOUTHERN LUBBOCK
COUNTY AND NORTHERN LYNN COUNTY.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST
RAINS WERE SOUTH OF LUBBOCK AND SOUTH OF WOOLFORTH.  MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONC2ERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 4:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza27 min
Apr 27, 4:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby47 min
Apr 27, 5:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock45 min
Apr 27, 5:33 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens42 min
Apr 27, 5:51 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens43 min
Apr 27, 6:24 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBKing36 min
Apr 27, 6:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd31 min

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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.