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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 12, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2005, 1:49 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crosby County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 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 Jun 12, 9:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 12:15 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1215 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 TXZ024>026-030>032-036>038-041>044-130300- BRISCOE-CHILDRESS-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD-GARZA-HALL-KENT-KING- LYNN-MOTLEY-STONEWALL- 1215 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 464 EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BRISCOE...CHILDRESS...COTTLE...CROSBY...DICKENS...FLOYD...GARZA... HALL...KENT...KING...LYNN...MOTLEY...AND STONEWALL. SOME COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... SILVERTON...MEMPHIS...CHILDRESS...PADUCAH...MATADOR...FLOYDADA... CROSBYTON...DICKENS...GUTHRIE...ASPERMONT...JAYTON...POST...AND TAHOKA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FOX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 40 min |
| Jun 12, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 65 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.