Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Lubbock, TX

Issued

May 10, 2002, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)

Expired

May 11, 2002, 12:30 AM CDT

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Lubbock, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Castro County, TX

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS54 KLUB 110427
SVRLBB
TXC069-110530-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1126 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CASTRO COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
  THIS INCLUDES DIMMITT...

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1124 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
  GOLFBALLS 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DIMMITT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF MULESHOE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  DIMMITT AND EASTER...

AT 1120 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL AS THIS 
STORM MOVED THROUGH LAZBUDDIE...IN SOUTHEAST PARMER COUNTY.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0.

LAT...LON 3462 10251 3431 10251 3447 10200 3475 10199

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 10, 1:00 PM CDT, 10 hours 27 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
100 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002

FIRST PERIOD RAIN CHANCE DEPENDS ON LATE AFTERNOON TRENDS. EXPECT
ANY STORMS TO DEVELOP INITIALLY WEST OR SOUTHWEST OF OUR AREA, AND
MOVE NORTHEAST. SEE SPC DAY1 OUTLOOK FOR SEVERE POTENTIAL.
INCREASING CIN TONIGHT SUGGESTS THAT ANY STORMS IN OUR AREA WOULD BE
MAINLY THIS EVENING. FOR SATURDAY WILL PROBABLY HAVE DRYLINE IN
EASTERN ZONES, BUT CONVERGENCE ALONG IT MAY BE FAIRLY WEAK. ALSO,
LATEST ETA HAS 700 MB TEMPERATURES OF 11-12C, AND 1000-500 MB
THICKNESS OF 580-582 DECAMETERS, SUGGESTING SUBSTANTIAL INHIBITION.
NEXT SHALLOW FRONT PUSHES INTO THE AREA BY LATE SATURDAY NIGHT,
HOWEVER, WITH LOSS OF HEATING AND CONTINUED WARM LAYER ALOFT, WOULD
NOT EXPECT STORMS WITH THE FRONT. DRY SUNDAY IN POSTFRONTAL AIRMASS.
LOOKS CLEAR SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY WITH CONFLUENT NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT
DOWNSTREAM OF MID LEVEL RIDGE.

PRELIMINARY:
FRI 55/86/53/74 300-  TIA 56/85/53/71 3---  CDS 62/88/62/75 31--
BNF 58/90/57/78 200-  LUB 62/89/57/75 2---  ASP 65/86/64/77 1---

.LUB...NONE.

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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.