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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2006, 10:31 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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 3, 2006, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2006, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stonewall County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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 3, 9:44 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 9:44 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1127 AM CDT WED MAY 3 2006 TXZ021>044-041630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1127 AM CDT WED MAY 3 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 TO MODERATE RISK ACROSS MUCH OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. THE MODERATE RISK IS GENERALLY EAST OF A SILVERTON TO LAKE ALAN HENRY LINE. THE SLIGHT RISK ENCOMPASSES THE REMAINDER OF AN AREA EAST OF A DIMMITT TO TAHOKA LINE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS AREA...LIKELY NEAR A MULESHOE TO MEMPHIS LINE BY 3 PM. IN ADDITION THE DRYLINE WILL MOVE EAST TOWARD THE INTERSTATE 27 CORRIDOR. BOTH OF THESE FEATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM INITIATION BY LATE AFTERNOON. STRONG INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH MODEST WINDS ALOFT SHOULD RESULT MOSTLY IN MULTICELLULAR ORGANIZATION WITH SOME ISOLATED SUPERCELLS ALSO POSSIBLE. THUS THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRAIGHT-LINE WIND GUSTS. HOWEVER AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND EAST OF A MULESHOE TO LEVELLAND TO POST LINE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH THROUGH MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS THURSDAY BEFORE STALLING OUT THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THIS FRONT...ALONG WITH ANY PREEXISTING BOUNDARIES...AND A REINFORCING FRONT MOVING IN FROM THE NORTH WILL ALL BE POTENTIAL FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR CONVECTIVE INITIATION. GIVEN MODERATE INSTABILITY AND SHEAR IN PLACE...ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. ADDITIONALLY...THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM ON FRIDAY WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO MUCH OF THE REGION. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME FOR SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 39 min |
| May 3, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 63 min |
| May 3, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 56 min |
| May 3, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 64 min |
| May 3, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 60 min |
| May 3, 7:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 67 min |
| May 3, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 49 min |
| May 3, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 48 min |
| May 3, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 20 min |
| May 3, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 52 min |
| May 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 61 min |
| May 3, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 56 min |
| May 3, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 45 min |
| May 3, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 67 min |
| May 3, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 45 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.