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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 11, 1994Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1994, 1:32 AM CDT for Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1994, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1994, 2:09 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Yoakum County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1994-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 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 1994-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, May 10, 10:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum63 min
May 11, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock60 min
May 11, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry68 min
May 11, 2:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry22 min
May 11, 2:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn68 min
May 11, 3:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn28 min
May 11, 4:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent59 min
May 11, 4:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza35 min
May 11, 8:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum47 min
May 11, 9:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBTerry3 hr
May 11, 10:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry49 min
May 11, 10:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLubbock2 hr
May 11, 10:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock2 hr
May 11, 11:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLynn2 hr
May 11, 11:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn2 hr
May 11, 11:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza40 min
May 11, 12:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Garza3 hr
May 11, 1:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLynn, Terry3 hr
May 11, 2:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBDickens3 hr
May 11, 2:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLubbock3 hr
May 11, 3:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby2 hr
May 11, 3:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLynn2 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.