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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1998, 10:18 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 77 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
- Jun 7, 1998, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1998, 11:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 77 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Briscoe County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ021-022-027-028-033-034-039-040-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 534 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 1998 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: PARMER-CASTRO-BAILEY-LAMB-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-YOAKUM AND TERRY. SOME COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE FRIONA-DIMMITT-MORTON- MULESHOE-LITTLEFIELD-LEVELLAND-DENVER CITY AND BROWNFIELD. THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO ALONG THE DRYLINE ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE WATCH AREA LATER THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND... WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDING TORNADOES IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN INFORMED BY KEEPING ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A THREATENING WEATHER IS SPOTTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. 09
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ021-022-027-028-033-034-039-040-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 534 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 1998 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: PARMER-CASTRO-BAILEY-LAMB-COCHRAN- HOCKLEY-YOAKUM AND TERRY. SOME COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE FRIONA-DIMMITT-MORTON- MULESHOE-LITTLEFIELD-LEVELLAND-DENVER CITY AND BROWNFIELD. THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO ALONG THE DRYLINE ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE WATCH AREA LATER THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND... WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDING TORNADOES IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN INFORMED BY KEEPING ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A THREATENING WEATHER IS SPOTTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. 09
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:18 PM CDT, 1 hour before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 33 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.