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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:18 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Olton, TX | Large hail destroyed several thousand acres of cotton. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
078 WUUS54 KLUB 102350 SVRLBB TXC279-110030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 649 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAMB COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF OLTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LITTLEFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... OLTON... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 806-745-4260. LAT...LON 3430 10235 3407 10230 3411 10209 3430 10209
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.