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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 20, 1994Kent County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 20, 1994, 8:15 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 20, 1994, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Oct 20, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kent County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-10-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 20, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens49 min
Oct 20, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle52 min
Oct 21, 1:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.