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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2005, 2:15 AM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 6, 2005, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hockley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 909 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 Jul 5, 10:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 10:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 11:45 AM CDT, 14 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1145 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 2005 TXZ021>044-061645- BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD- GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER- STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM- 1145 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... ALTHOUGH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS AND SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL TAKE THE MAJORITY OF THE DAY TO RECOVER FOLLOWING THIS MORNINGS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX THAT PRODUCED HIGH WINDS AROUND THE REGION. BUT STRONG HEATING AND STEEP LAPSE RATES COULD SUPPORT SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES OR FURTHER NORTHWEST AGAINST THE FRONT RANGE OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO RANGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY THREATEN THE ENTIRE AREA OVERNIGHT WITH STRONG WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES MAY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY NIGHT WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SEVERE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every 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.