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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 31, 2005Garza County, Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2005, 6:55 AM CDT for Garza County, Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
May 31, 2005, 6:55 AM CDT (11:55 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2005, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Garza County, TX, Lynn County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 31, 2:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 2005-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 716 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2005-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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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 May 31, 4:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 4:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 3:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 31, 5:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 31, 5:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 31, 6:20 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran65 min
May 31, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran, Hockley61 min
May 31, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey67 min
May 31, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb64 min
May 31, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn53 min
May 31, 5:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock57 min
May 31, 5:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn57 min
May 31, 5:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb52 min
May 31, 6:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley59 min
May 31, 7:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock47 min
May 31, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro59 min
May 31, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer67 min
May 31, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher64 min
May 31, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBSwisher53 min
May 31, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro60 min
May 31, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBriscoe60 min
May 31, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb59 min
May 31, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher66 min
May 31, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro45 min
May 31, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe60 min
May 31, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley40 min
May 31, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd56 min
May 31, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale67 min
May 31, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb60 min
May 31, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley61 min
May 31, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb56 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.