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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 25, 1996Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1996, 6:48 PM CDT for Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1996, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 7:35 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1602 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 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 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
1602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
May 24, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBriscoe, Swisher31 min
May 24, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher35 min
May 25, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Parmer34 min
May 25, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum50 min
May 25, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer49 min
May 25, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBParmer47 min
May 25, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry62 min
May 25, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLynn, Terry48 min
May 25, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLynn48 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.