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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 5, 1995Kent County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1995, 6:13 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1995, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
62 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 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2214 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2214 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
7.7

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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, Jun 5, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ027>043-052100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
254 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...

AT 250 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS.
ONE STORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHEASTERN LUBBOCK COUNTY FROM 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK TO 5 MILES NORTH OF SLATON.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS
WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY NEAR WOODROW AND IN
SOUTHEASTERN TERRY COUNTY.  A THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN THE
SOUTHERN PANHANDLE SOUTHEAST OF SILVERTON.  THESE STORMS SHOWED
LITTLE MOVEMENT.

CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS.  STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

JAMES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock49 min
Jun 4, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby66 min
Jun 4, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock46 min
Jun 4, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent50 min
Jun 4, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing38 min
Jun 5, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd59 min
Jun 5, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd51 min
Jun 5, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley58 min
Jun 5, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd45 min
Jun 5, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBMotley35 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens55 min
Jun 5, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBMotley30 min
Jun 5, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby22 min
Jun 5, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens46 min
Jun 5, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent49 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.