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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 23, 2001King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2001, 10:25 PM CST for King County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 23, 2001, 10:25 PM CST (04:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2001, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County King County, TX

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 23, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 685 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Mar 23, 10:15 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 10:15 PM CST, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 23, 5:44 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before

TXZ021>044-240500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
544 PM CST FRI MAR 23 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 71 UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE
EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE ROLLING
PLAINS. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA...

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

THIS WATCH DOES INCLUDE THE LUBBOCK METROPOLITAN AREA.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE
TO THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV OR YOUR
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ST

Special weather statement, Mar 23, 8:17 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

TXZ021-027-033-240300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
817 PM CST FRI MAR 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES.

BAILEY...COCHRAN...AND PARMER.

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Local storm report, Mar 23, 8:33 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 8:56 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

TXZ021>044-240400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
856 PM CST FRI MAR 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS CANCELED THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES.

CASTRO...HOCKLEY...LAMB...TERRY...AND YOAKUM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 71 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM
TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES.

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

THIS WATCH DOES INCLUDE THE LUBBOCK METROPOLITAN AREA.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT4 OF 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 FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 10:05 PM CST, 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	41 min
Mar 23, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley	28 min
Mar 23, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lubbock	47 min
Mar 23, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	34 min
Mar 23, 10:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every 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.