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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 21, 1998Garza County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 7:36 PM CDT for Garza County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 21, 1998, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1998, 8:25 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Garza County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2073 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2073 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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
Jun 21, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle47 min
Jun 21, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing35 min
Jun 21, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle32 min
Jun 21, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent47 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.