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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 5, 2005Kent County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2005, 7:19 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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: Jun 5, 2005, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kent County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Jun 5, 4:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 4:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
453 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

.SHORT TERM...
HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO INCLULDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER
408 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

XI

.LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

11

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 11:30 AM CDT, 7 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1130 AM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

TXZ021>044-061630-
BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD-
GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER-
STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM-
1130 AM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH AND ROLLING PLAINS...GENERALLY
EAST OF A LINE FROM LEVELLAND TO BROWNFIELD.  THE SLIGHT RISK
INCLUDES THE LUBBOCK METROPOLITAN AREA.

ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL MOVE BACK INTO THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT
LOCATED JUST TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ODONNELL TO ASPERMONT.  THE
FRONT WILL PUSH NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND ALLOW
MOISTURE TO RETURN TO THE AREA...AS WELL AS PROVIDE A LIFTING
MECHANISM TO GENERATE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

THROUGH THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE
CAPPED BY WARMER AIR ABOVE THE SURFACE.  THE CAP WILL BE BROKEN
THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE UPPER 80S.

ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO RAPIDLY
BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT.  DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING WILL FOLLOW THE
MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT AND DEEPER MOISTURE FARTHER TO THE NORTH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...FROM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AT THIS TIME...THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY HAVE THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR ORGANIZED STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT...MAINLY AFTER
4 PM.

LAMARRE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
544 PM CDT SUN JUN 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0540 PM     HAIL             SLATON                  33.44N 101.64W
06/05/2005  0.75 INCH        LUBBOCK            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            REPORTED AT THE INTERSECTION OF FM 41 AND HWY 84

&&

GS

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
558 PM CDT SUN JUN 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0536 PM     HAIL             SLATON                  33.44N 101.64W
06/05/2005  1.75 INCH        LUBBOCK            TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

GS

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:28 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
628 PM CDT SUN JUN 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0615 PM     HAIL             GIRARD                  33.36N 100.66W
06/05/2005  1.00 INCH        KENT               TX   PUBLIC

&&

GS

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:59 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
659 PM CDT SUN JUN 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0605 PM     HAIL             5 N GRASSLAND           33.21N 101.59W
06/05/2005  1.75 INCH        LYNN               TX   PUBLIC

0647 PM     HAIL             1 E POST                33.19N 101.36W
06/05/2005  1.75 INCH        GARZA              TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 1313

0651 PM     HAIL             6 N JAYTON              33.34N 100.57W
06/05/2005  0.88 INCH        KENT               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

GS

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:10 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
710 PM CDT SUN JUN 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0702 PM     HAIL             4 N FLOYDADA            34.04N 101.34W
06/05/2005  1.75 INCH        FLOYD              TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

&&

GS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	45 min
Jun 5, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	38 min
Jun 5, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle	62 min
Jun 5, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Motley	26 min
Jun 5, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	60 min
Jun 5, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza	33 min
Jun 5, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Swisher	47 min
Jun 5, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King	28 min
Jun 5, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent	59 min
Jun 6, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.