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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 5:03 PM CDT for Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1994, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Motley County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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, Jun 5, 4:57 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
TXZ027>043-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 456 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS... AT 450 PM CDT LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER MAINLY EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL RATES WERE LOCATED OVER FLOYD AND MOTLEY COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST ABOUT 10 TO 15 MPH. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVLOPING OVER NEARBY PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AS WELL AS NORTHERN PARTS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN ALL BE EXPECTED AS TvHE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 59 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.