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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 11, 2000Terry County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT for Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Terry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 6:50 PM CDTHail 1Tokio, TX

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1289 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
1289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 1:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
155 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

WITH GOOD LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...MULTIPLE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM
LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION...WEAK MID AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES
ROTATING AROUND THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE HIGH EXPECT SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND
CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME
SEVERE (SEE SWODY1).

MODELS HAVE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING SLOWLY WESTWARD TONIGHT
AND MONDAY...THUS EXPECT MOISTURE PLUME CURRENTLY SEEN ON SATELLITE
OVER EAST TEXAS TO MOVE BACK TO THE WEST. THIS IS ALSO INDICATED
BY THE MODELS. THUS TROPICAL MOISTURE TO CONTINUE OVER THE AREA. AS
THE RIDGE BUILDS TO THE WEST THE SHORTWAVE OVER SOUTHERN BRITISH
COLUMBIA ATTM MOVES EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA. ANOTHER
SHORTWAVE IS EXPECTED TO ENTER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST MONDAY AND MOVE
THE TROF CURRENTLY OVER THE GREAT BASIN TO THE EASTERN ROCKIES
TUESDAY MORNING AND INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS BY LATE AFTERNOON. WITH
TROPICAL MOISTURE OVER WEST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE WITH SLIGHT CHANCE
TO CHANCE OF POPS THROUGH TUESDAY.

ON EXTENDED: AS UPPER LEVEL TROF MOVES INTO THE PLAINS LATE TUESDAY
IT WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT INTO THE SOUTH PLAINS TUESDAY NIGHT AND
THROUGH THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY. WILL THUS CONTINUE CHANCE POPS THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. DRY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY AS THE TROF MOVES EASTWARD AND A RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE WESTERN
CONUS.

FRIONA     63/89/63/88  4232     TULIA     64/88/64/89   3232
CHILDRESS  69/89/70/91  3222     LUBBOCK   66/89/68/92   3232
BROWNFIELD 65/88/68/91  4232     ASPERMONT 70/87/70/90   4222

.LBB...NONE.

JV/08

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb39 min
Jun 11, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb40 min
Jun 11, 2:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLamb2 hr
Jun 11, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock48 min
Jun 11, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer57 min
Jun 11, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock62 min
Jun 11, 4:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLubbock118 min
Jun 11, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran55 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.