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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 30, 2006Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2006, 11:01 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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 30, 2006, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2006, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 30, 10:43 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 10:43 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 11:36 AM CDT, 11 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1136 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006

TXZ021>044-311645-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1136 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE
STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS...BUT
ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY ACROSS THE EXTREME
SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS. SOUTHEASTERLY LOW-
LEVEL FLOW HAS BROUGHT AMPLE MOISTURE BACK INTO MOST OF WEST TEXAS...
WITH THE DRYLINE LOCATED FROM THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO
EASTERN NEW MEXICO. ADDITIONALLY...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW
PRESSURE WILL MOVE OUT OF THE ROCKIES INTO THE HIGH PLAINS LATER TODAY.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE
DRYLINE AND THEN MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THE AREA. THESE STORMS
SHOULD ENCOUNTER SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR TO ROTATE AND
BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE EAST. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE NEAR A OUTFLOW BOUNDARY LOCATED ACROSS THE
ROLLING PLAINS.

THUNDERSTORMS MAY ORGANIZE INTO A CLUSTER ACROSS THE PANHANDLE THIS
EVENING AND THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS MAINLY THE NORTHERN AND
EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DAMAGING
WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS....BUT LARGE
HAIL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE
ENTIRE AREA WEDNESDAY AND OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND
SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE ON THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 9:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 9:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 9:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 10:13 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1013 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006

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

0935 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PADUCAH                 34.01N 100.30W
05/30/2006                   COTTLE             TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            TWO INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWNED ON THE STREETS OF
            PADUCAH. WIND DURATION BETWEEN 930PM AND 945PM.

&&

LAMARRE

Local storm report, May 30, 10:24 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1024 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006

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

1013 PM     HAIL             1 S WOLFFORTH           33.49N 102.01W
05/30/2006  E0.88 INCH       LUBBOCK            TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            PEA TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND. HAIL
            DURATION FROM 1013 PM TO 1022 PM.

&&

LAMARRE

Special weather statement, May 30, 10:27 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1027 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006

TXZ032-038-310400-
COTTLE TX-KING TX-
1027 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS KING AND COTTLE COUNTIES...

AT 1021 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES EAST OF SWEARINGEN TO 7
MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND
LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALSO LIKELY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	43 min
May 30, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	44 min
May 30, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	40 min
May 30, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	49 min
May 30, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	28 min
May 30, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	44 min
May 30, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, Motley	46 min
May 30, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	58 min
May 30, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	38 min
May 30, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	51 min
May 31, 12:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Garza	114 min

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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.