Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2004, 9:11 AM CDT for Bailey County, Cochran County, Texas. It was in force for 79 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
- Oct 5, 2004, 9:11 AM CDT (14:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2004, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 5, 3:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 3:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 5, 5:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 555 AM CDT TUE OCT 5 2004 TXZ021>044-061100- BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD- GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER- STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM- 555 AM CDT TUE OCT 5 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... FLOODING A SLOW MOVING STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS FROM THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES TODAY AND TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL WILL DEVELOP INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS TODAY IN ADVANCE OF THIS SYSTEM AND SPREAD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA TONIGHT. RECENT RAINS HAVE RESULTED IN NEARLY SATURATED SOILS ACROSS THE REGION AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RUNOFF AND FLOODING. FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE REFER TO THE FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING...WMO ID WGUS64 KLUB...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE AT 400 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ENTIRE SOUTH PLAINS...EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND ROLLING PLAINS AT LEAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY. DUE TO THE SLOW EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE STORM SYSTEM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY ENOUGH RAINFALL RATES FOR FLOODING MAY LINGER OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AND ROLLING PLAINS THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS DRIVE INTO FLOOD WATER. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS OR AROUND POLICE BARRICADES. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 8:47 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 847 AM CDT TUE OCT 5 2004 TXZ027-033-051415- BAILEY-COCHRAN- 847 AM CDT TUE OCT 5 2004 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARDS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS... A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED BETWEEN PORTALES AND DORA...IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO...WILL MOVE TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION TO THE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THERE WILL BE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR MORE IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THIS MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING ACROSS BAILEY AND COCHRAN COUNTIES. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF BAILEY AND COCHRAN COUNTIES AFTER 9 AM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.