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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2003, 8:08 PM CDT for Lamb 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2003, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Did it verify
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KLUB 020108
SVRLBB
TXC279-020200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
808 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LAMB COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 805 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF FIELDTON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF
LITTLEFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
FIELDTON AND OLTON...
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0.
LAT...LON 3430 10236 3414 10247 3393 10232 3393 10209
3430 10210
$$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 1, 7:46 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 7:46 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 745 PM CDT SUN 1 JUN 2003 UPDATED 1ST PERIOD FOR TO EXTEND WATCH NORTHEAST AND REMOVE WATCH REST OF THE CWFA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PLAINS OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO TO CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE CWFA OVERNIGHT AND HAVE RETAINED LIKELY POPS MOST AREAS. XI .LBB...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 11:23 AM CDT, 8 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ021>044-020000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1123 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003 THIS IS A HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WITH ABUNDANT SUNSHINE AND MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS MORNING...AFTERNOON HEATING WILL PROVIDE MODERATE AMOUNTS OF ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY BY LATE AFTERNOON. WITH THESE CONDITIONS THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ANYWHERE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...AS A WARM FRONT LOCATED ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN LIFTS NORTHEASTWARD DURING THE AFTERNOON AND AS THE DRYLINE BECOMES BETTER DEFINED ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS...THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL LIKELY BE ALONG THE INTERSTATE 27 CORRIDOR. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE EAST DURING THE EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WINDS GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR MONDAY NIGHT AS THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ACROSS NEW MEXICO DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS MOVE ACROSS THE REGION. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A DRYLINE MOVES INTO THE SOUTH PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ021>044-020200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 345 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 456 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 456 UNTIL 900 PM CDT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. MOTLEY...COTTLE...FLOYD...HALE...BAILEY...LAMB...KING...DICKENS ...CROSBY...LUBBOCK...HOCKLEY...COCHRAN...KENT...STONEWALL... GARZA...LYNN...TERRY...YOAKUM...PARMER...CASTRO...SWISHER...BRISCOE ...CHILDRESS AND HALL 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:46 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-032-037-038-020700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 746 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 458 IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT... ...THIS WATCH REPLACES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 456... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 458 UNTIL 200 AM CDT. THIS WATCH REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: COTTLE... DICKENS... KING... AND MOTLEY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT REMAINS MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS EARLY TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE WESTERN TOWARDS THE CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS COUNTIES COULD REINTENSIFY AS WELL LATER THIS EVENING AND MAY REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AT THAT TIME. 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:46 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-032-037-038-020700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 746 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003 CORRECTED COUNTIES IN THE WATCH ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 458 IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT... ...THIS WATCH REPLACES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 456... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 458 UNTIL 200 AM CDT. THIS WATCH REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: COTTLE... DICKENS... KING... MOTLEY... CHILDRESS... AND HALL A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT REMAINS MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS EARLY TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE WESTERN TOWARDS THE CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS COUNTIES COULD REINTENSIFY AS WELL LATER THIS EVENING AND MAY REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AT THAT TIME. 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.
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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.