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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 4, 2001Dickens County, Kent County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 7:38 PM CDT for Dickens County, Kent 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
Jun 4, 2001, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dickens County, TX, Kent County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 4, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 288 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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 Jun 4, 5:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 5:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
522 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001

VSBL SAT IMAGES AND AREAS RADARS INDICATE CAP SHOWING SIGNS OF
BREAKING WITH TCU DVLPG AND WDLY SCT TSRA INITIATING ALONG THE
DRYLINE. LATEST RUN OF THE MESO-ETA AS WELL AS THE RUC HINTS THAT
WDLY SCT TSRA COULD FILL IN THROUGH 00Z AND CONT THROUGH A PORTION
OF THE EVENING. SVR POTENTIAL IS THERE AND SPC ALSO MONITORING THE
ERN ZONES FOR A PSBL WATCH OVR THE NXT FEW HRS (SEE SPC MESOSCALE
DISCUSSION 1031 FOR MORE INFO). WL UPDATE THE ZFP TO RAISE POPS TO
40 PERCENT ACROSS THE ERN ZONES AND INCLUDE MENTION OF SVR. WL BE
INTERESTING TO SEE IF CONVECTION CAN BE SUSTAINED LTR TNGT AS 50KT
LLJ GETS CRANKING. ANOTHER UPDATE MAY BE NECESSARY LTR PENDING
FURTHER ANALYSIS.

.LUB...NONE.

ST

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
TXZ024>026-030>032-036>038-042>044-050500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
547 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
TUESDAY MORNING...

KING...HALL...FLOYD...CROSBY...CHILDRESS...MOTLEY...GARZA...
STONEWALL...KENT...COTTLE...BRISCOE AND DICKENS...

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

ST

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent44 min
Jun 4, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent44 min
Jun 4, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall50 min
Jun 4, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza33 min
Jun 4, 10:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKent2 hr
Jun 4, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent45 min
Jun 5, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent41 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall, Motley25 min
Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall, Motley30 min
Jun 5, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall, Motley42 min
Jun 5, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley60 min
Jun 5, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd, Motley51 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.