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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 31, 1998Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 31, 1998, 2:19 AM CST for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: Oct 31, 1998, 2:19 AM CST (08:19 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 1998, 2:50 AM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 310820
SVRLBB
TXC219-310850-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
219 AM CST SAT OCT 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HOCKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 250 AM CST

* AT 217 AM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEVELLAND OR JUST
  SOUTHWEST OF SMYER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.


  THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

  WH/JJ

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

Local storm report, Oct 30, 8:50 PM CST, 5 hours 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
850 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    13 WNW FRIONA             TX   1 INCH HAIL
10/30/98   PARMER                         FRIONA PD REPORTED NICKEL
                                          TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN THE
                                          COMMUNITY OF RHEA

0636 PM    DIMMITT                   TX   1 INCH HAIL
10/30/98   CASTRO                         CASTRO COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE REPORTED NICKEL TO
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL

0636 PM    12 WSW DIMMITT            TX   TORNADO
10/30/98   CASTRO                         CASTRO COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE REPORTED A BRIEF
                                          TORNADO TOUCHDOWN

0640 PM    13 WNW FRIONA             TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/30/98   PARMER                         NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                                          CONTACT REPORTED GOLF BALL
                                          SIZE HAIL IN THE COMMUNITY
                                          OF RHEA

0716 PM    DIMMITT                   TX   TORNADO
10/30/98   CASTRO                         SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A
                                          TORNADO AT AN UNKNOWN
  ^                                        DISTANCE NORTH OF DIMMIT

CBD

Special weather statement, Oct 30, 9:03 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before

TXZ021-022-027>029-033>035-039>041-310345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
903 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST
PANHANDLE UNTIL 11 PM.

PARMER...CASTRO...BAILEY...LAMB...HALE...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK
...YOAKUM...TERRY AND LYNN COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER A TORNADO
WATCH.

SCATTERED SHOWExRS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT MUCH OF
THE AREA TONIGHT...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS
DIMINSIHED.

LV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 6:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Parmer	48 min
Oct 30, 6:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Parmer	32 min
Oct 30, 6:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Parmer	17 min
Oct 30, 6:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro	33 min
Oct 30, 7:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	33 min
Oct 31, 12:37 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Parmer	3 hr
Oct 31, 11:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Castro	118 min
Oct 31, 11:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Terry	49 min
Oct 31, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lubbock	48 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.