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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 2, 2000Crosby County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2000, 1:35 AM CST for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2000, 1:35 AM CST (07:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2000, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Crosby County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:38 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLUB 020736 COR
SVRLBB
TXC107-020815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
135 AM CST THU MAR 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CROSBY COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 215 AM CST

* AT 133 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF SOUTHLAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF SLATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE RALLS...
  SOUTHLAND...CAPROCK AND CROSBYTON.

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.

LAT...LON 3337 10162 3327 10144 3369 10105 3382 10127
          3367 10142

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 Mar 1, 3:00 PM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 3:00 PM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
300 PM CST WED MAR 1 2000

THINGS ARE SHAPING UP AS FORECAST SINCE YESTERDAY. CLOSED LOW THAT
WAS OVER SOUTHERN NV THIS MORNING HAS MOVED INTO AZ THIS AFTERNOON.
IT WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST INTO NM OVERNIGHT...SETTING THE STAGE
FOR A CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS
AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY.

IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING SYSTEM...SURFACE PRESSURE FALLS HAVE BEEN
INTENSIFYING THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS REGION. SFC MOISTURE HAS BEEN
RETURNING UP THE RIO GRANDE AND WAS AS FAR NW AS KMAF/KFST BY 18Z.
WARM AIR/MOISTURE ADVECTION WILL CONTINUE/INCREASE ACROSS ENTIRE AREA
OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY AS 40+ KNOT LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPS.  AS
PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN OUR DISCUSSIONS AND SPC OUTLOOKS...STILL
LOOKS LIKE CONVECTION WILL BE ELEVATED WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE
MAIN THREAT.

PRECIP WILL END FROM SW TO NE ACROSS THE CWA THURSDAY AS GUSTY WEST
WINDS USHER IN MUCH DRIER AIR. AFTER 18Z...STORMS SHOULD BE LIMITED
TO THE NERN COUNTIES...BUT EVEN THERE PRECIP SHOULD END BEFORE
00Z/03. BY THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY...UPPER LEVEL LOW SHOULD BE OVER THE
CENTRAL U.S. ALLOWING FAIR/PC SKIES TO RETURN TO WTX.  FEW DEGREES
COOLER FRIDAY DUE TO WEAK COLD FRONT BEHIND DEPARTED STORM.

TWO MORE SHOTS FOR PRECIP IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. FIRST WILL BE ON
SATURDAY WHEN A WEAKENING UPPER LEVEL LOW PASSES TO OUR NORTH.
MOISTURE RETURN LOOKS ADEQUATE AND WILL MAINTAIN CURRENT WORDING OF
SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE AREA.  SUN/MON LOOK LIKE
DECENT DAYS WITH MODERATE TEMPS...THEN ANOTHER DEEPER LOW APPROACHES
WITH INCREASING CHC FOR PRECIP JUST AFTER THE EXTENDED FORECAST
PERIOD (IE...MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY). LV

FRIONA         39/63/31/61 53-0
TULIA          41/64/32/62 54-0
CHILDRESS      45/64/35/61 6610
BROWNFIELD     43/70/33/65 6300
LUBBOCK        44/69/34/64 64-0
ASPERMONT      48/72/41/68 65-0

.LBB...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 1, 8:50 PM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before

TXZ021>025-027>031-033>037-039>043-020800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
850 PM CST WED MAR 1 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMBER 62 FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS UNTIL 200 AM THURSDAY MORNING.

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH AREA:

PARMER...CASTRO...SWISHER...BRISCOE...HALL...BAILEY...
LAMB...HALE...FLOYD...MOTLEY...COCHAN...HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK...
CROSBY...DICKENS...YOAKUM...TERRY...LYNN...GARZA...KENT...

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV...OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCE
FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

TAYLOR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 1:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza	33 min
Mar 2, 1:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	47 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

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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.