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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 30, 1996Dickens County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 2:37 PM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 30, 1996, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 3:40 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Dickens County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 1996-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1030 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 1996-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 299 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
1030 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 1:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran43 min
May 30, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock50 min
May 30, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Lamb59 min
May 30, 3:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Swisher49 min
May 30, 7:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb45 min
May 30, 12:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent47 min
May 30, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry31 min
May 30, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn34 min
May 30, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.