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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 3, 2006Hale County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2006, 5:47 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
Aug 3, 2006, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hale County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1025 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 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
1025 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.