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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2001, 4:40 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Sep 16, 2001, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
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 Sep 16, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 227 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 2001 LATEST MODEL RUN CONTINUES TO SHOW A WEAK FLOW OVER AREA. SEVERAL BOUNDARYS LEFT OVER FROM THIS MORNINGS CONVECTION. THIS TO BE AREA OF FOCUS FOR CONVECTION THIS EVENING. A COUPLE OF WEAK DISTURBANCES ALSO TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. ONE DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST ACROSS NEW MEXICO TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AT THIS TIME. AFTER LOOKING AT LATEST SATELLITE DATA...BELIEVE BULK OF ENERGY TO STAY ACROSS NORTHERN AREAS OF THE FA. ANOTHER WEAK DISTURBANCE IS NOW MOVING EAST ACROSS OKLAHOMA...REMNANTS OF THIS MORNINGS CONVECTION. THE DISTURBANCE OVER NEW MEXICO WILL AID DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION THIS EVENING AS AIRMASS REMAINS RELATIVELY UNSTABLE. NEXT UP...MODELS INDICATE A FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO APPROACH REGION LATE MONDAY NIGHT/EARLY TUESDAY. WILL HAVE GOOD WAA AHEAD OF BOUNDARY AND 40KT LOW LEVEL JET OVER FA AS INDICATED BY ETA MONDAY EVENING. THINK BEST CHANCE OF RAIN ALONG EAST-WEST BOUNDARY. WITH DEEP MOISTURE OVER AREA COULD SEE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS UPPER FLOW TO REMAIN VERY WEAK. SO ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVERS AND ALSO TO HAVE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS...AS INDICATED BY MODEL SOUNDINGS. WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY APPEAR PARTLY CLOUDY...THEN MODELS SHOW ANOTHER DISTURBANCE TO APPROACH NORTHEAST SECTIONS FRIDAY. WILL MENTION CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTHEAST FRIDAY AND STAY DRY ELSEWHERE FOR NOW. INTO THE WEEKEND MODEL DATA INDICATES ANOTHER FRONT TO APPROACH THE REGION LATE IN THE PERIOD. THANKS AMA/MAF FOR COORD. PRELIMINARY: FRI/TUL 61/85/59/77 4343 CDS 67/88/65/84 3243 BNF/LUB 62/88/63/82 3233 ASP 70/90/67/85 2-34 .LUB...NONE. XI
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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.