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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2000, 1:27 AM CST for Garza County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 2, 2000, 1:27 AM CST (07:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2000, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garza County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 784 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLUB 020728 SVRLBB TXC169-020800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 127 AM CST THU MAR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GARZA COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 200 AM CST * AT 123 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER POST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SHERIFF IN POST REPORTED 1 INCH DIAMTER HAIL IN JUST SOUTHWEST OF POST AT 125 AM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE POST. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 1:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 2:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 3:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 4:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 4:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.