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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 31, 1995Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT for Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lynn County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 847 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 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 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
847 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.7

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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 31, 11:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey51 min
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, 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

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.