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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 7, 1998Hale County, Swisher County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 1:42 AM CST for Hale County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
Mar 7, 1998, 1:42 AM CST (07:42 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1998, 2:15 AM CST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hale County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 070742 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC189-437-070815-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
142 AM CST SAT MAR 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...NORTHEASTERN HALE COUNTY

IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

   ...SOUTHEASTERN SWISHER COUNTY
 
AT 140 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4
MILES NORTHEAST OF PLAINVIEW MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE:
         CLAYTONVILLE                AROUND  155 AM CST

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.



TMT

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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.