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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 26, 1998Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1998, 5:57 PM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
Apr 26, 1998, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1998, 6:55 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hockley County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 870 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 1998-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -136 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.2
Supercell composite
-3.4

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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
Apr 26, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Lamb62 min
Apr 26, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer33 min
Apr 26, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro35 min
Apr 26, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale66 min
Apr 26, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer50 min
Apr 26, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock48 min
Apr 26, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd32 min
Apr 26, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent31 min
Apr 26, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher35 min
Apr 26, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd50 min
Apr 26, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent, Stonewall46 min
Apr 26, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBStonewall35 min
Apr 26, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent48 min
Apr 26, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Parmer33 min
Apr 26, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey30 min
Apr 26, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.