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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 26, 2001Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 6:34 PM CDT for Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: May 26, 2001, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -453 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2089 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 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 May 26, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
329 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

...CORRECTED TEMPERATURES IN PRELIM NUMBERS BELOW...

SFC OBS INDICATING MOISTURE AXIS FROM AMA-CDS-ABI WITH LAPS
INDICATING CAPE VALUES OF 2000-3500 J/KG IN THIS AREA. SOME CU
GOING UP IN THE AXIS...ESPECIALLY W/SW OF AMA WHERE LAPS INDICATES
WEAKER CAP. MEANWHILE DRYLINE IS STILL VERY FAR TO THE WEST NEAR A
ROW-LVS LINE WITH LINE OF CU/TSRA GOING UP ON IT. GIVEN THIS SET UP
WOULD LOOK FOR TSRA TO DEVELOP OR ADVECT INTO WRN ZONES SIMILAR TO
LATEST RUC RUN THEN SPREAD SOUTHEASTWARD. ACTIVITY SHOULD CONTINUE
AFTER SUNSET AS IT MOVES INTO INCREASING LLJ. CHC POPS FOR NOW
PENDING RADAR/SATELLITE/SFC OB EVALUATION CLOSER TO ZONE ISSUANCE.

WOULD LIKELY HAVE A MESOSCALE BOUNDARY OR TWO IN THE AREA TOMORROW.
HOWEVER...MIDLEVEL TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE WITH MODELS
SUGGESTING 14-16C RANGE. PROGGED SOUNDINGS ALSO DEPICTING
INCREASING CAP. THUS THINK CONVECTION WILL BE SEVERELY LIMITED
TOMORROW AFTN/EVE. EXCEPTION WOULD BE NERN ZONES WHERE CAP WILL BE
WEAKER AND WHERE AREA WILL BE CLOSER TO SOUTHWARD MOVING SYNOPTIC
SCALE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. ETA/AVN BOTH BRING THIS BOUNDARY INTO THE FA
MEMORIAL DAY. HOWEVER CAP IS THE BIG LIMITING FACTOR. WILL PROBABLY
TAKE A WHILE TO BREAK CAP...IF AT ALL...AND WILL LIMIT POP WORDING TO
FIFTH PERIOD ATTM.

BOUNDARIES REMAIN IN AREA THROUGH MIDWEEK WITH WEAKENING CAP. WILL
THUS KEEP SLIGHT CHC WORDING GOING.

FRIONA       60/92/60/87 3111
TULIA        60/92/60/87 3111
BROWNFIELD   62/93/65/93 3111
LUBBOCK      62/93/65/93 3111
CHILDRESS    64/90/65/85 4221
ASPERMONT    67/93/67/93 4111

.LUB...NONE.

BARRITT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 5:45 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

TXZ022>026-028>032-034>038-040>044-270300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
545 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING...

KING...HALL...HALE...FLOYD...CROSBY...CHILDRESS...SWISHER...LYNN...
LUBBOCK...HOCKLEY...MOTLEY...GARZA...CASTRO...STONEWALL...TERRY...
KENT...COTTLE...BRISCOE...DICKENS AND LAMB...

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMEKNTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Swisher	41 min
May 26, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	50 min
May 26, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hockley	29 min
May 26, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	33 min
May 26, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens	58 min
May 26, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza	62 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.