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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 29, 2001Bailey County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2001, 1:38 AM CDT for Bailey County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 29, 2001, 1:38 AM CDT (06:38 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2001, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bailey County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1376 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
1376 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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 28, 9:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 9:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Lamb47 min
May 29, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale39 min
May 29, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher62 min
May 29, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro37 min
May 29, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBSwisher45 min
May 29, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza47 min
May 29, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Swisher45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.