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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Lubbock, TX

September 14, 2006Hale County, Lamb County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 2006, 6:01 PM CDT for Hale County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
Sep 14, 2006, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 2006, 6:34 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hale County, TX, Lamb County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 236 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 12:00Z on 2006-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 442 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 12:00Z on 2006-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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 Sep 14, 5:20 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 5:20 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 14, 4:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
440 PM CDT THU SEP 14 2006

TXZ021>044-150800-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
440 PM CDT THU SEP 14 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT
PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A FEW
STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY DAMAGING
WINDS. THE MOST LIKELY LOCATIONS TO EXPERIENCE STRONG TO SEVERE
STORMS WILL BE THOSE LOCALES WEST OF INTERSTATE 27/U.S. HIGHWAY 87.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
454 PM CDT THU SEP 14 2006

TXZ028-142230-
LAMB TX-
454 PM CDT THU SEP 14 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS LAMB COUNTY...

AT 452 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING
AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES NORTH OF LITTLEFIELD...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY
STRONG WIND GUSTS ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 385 NORTH OF LITTLEFIELD.

STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Local storm report, Sep 14, 5:46 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 14, 5:49 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb55 min
Sep 14, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.