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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 6, 2005Hockley County, Texas

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.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 6, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 909 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 2005-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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 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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb33 min
Jul 6, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale52 min
Jul 6, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock51 min
Jul 6, 3:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn41 min
Jul 6, 3:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby54 min
Jul 6, 3:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza67 min
Jul 6, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent66 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.