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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 30, 1995Bailey County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1995, 9:38 PM CDT for Bailey County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1995, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1995, 10:29 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bailey County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 589 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale61 min
May 30, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb30 min
May 30, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd69 min
May 31, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale61 min
May 31, 9:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd59 min
May 31, 10:39 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb29 min
May 31, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens68 min
May 31, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza51 min
May 31, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn60 min
May 31, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza58 min
May 31, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley60 min
May 31, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza42 min
May 31, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBMotley50 min
May 31, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle70 min
May 31, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd64 min
May 31, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley54 min
May 31, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, King55 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.