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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2006, 9:48 PM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 26, 2006, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2006, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 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 02:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 26, 9:30 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:30 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 11:00 AM CDT, 10 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1100 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 2006 TXZ021>044-271600- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1100 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING NEAR THE SURFACE TROF/DRY LINE NEAR THE TEXAS NEW MEXICO BORDER. THE DRY LINE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS DURING THE DAY. ALTHOUGH THE PROBABILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW...DUE TO THE VERY DRY LOWER ATMOSPHERE ISOLATED WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH MAY OCCUR WITH A FEW OF THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY CONVECTIVE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY-LINE MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS ON SATURDAY. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH COULD OCCUR FROM THE STRONGEST STORMS. FIRE WEATHER A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. GUSTY WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH VERY LOW HUMIDITY AND ELEVATED FIRE DANGER TO CAUSE THIS CONCERN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 8:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 801 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2006 TXZ033-270145- COCHRAN TX- 801 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS COCHRAN COUNTY... AT 758 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLEDSOE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF MORTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:53 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 6 more | 24 hr |
| May 27, 4:53 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 6 more | 15 hr |
| May 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.