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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 10, 2000Lamb County, Texas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 10, 7:18 PM CDTHail 1.75Olton, TXLarge 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 277 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lubbock42 min
Jun 10, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro52 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.