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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

February 23, 2007Briscoe County, Hall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2007, 5:15 PM CST for Briscoe County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
Feb 23, 2007, 5:15 PM CST (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Feb 23, 2007, 5:45 PM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Briscoe County, TX, Hall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 23, 3:11 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 2007-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2007-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 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 Feb 23, 3:50 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 3:50 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 23, 11:30 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1130 AM CST FRI FEB 23 2007

TXZ021>044-241730-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1130 AM CST FRI FEB 23 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EXTREME
SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND A SMALL PORTION OF THE NORTHERN LOW
ROLLING PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MODERATE RISK
AREA IS NEAR AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 83 IN CHILDRESS...COTTLE AND KING
COUNTIES. SURROUNDING THE MODERATE RISK AREA IS A SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE ROLLING PLAINS. THE
SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY EAST OF A SILVERTON TO FLOYDADA TO
POST LINE.

LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RETURNED TO WEST TEXAS THIS MORNING AHEAD OF A
STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER THE WESTERN U.S. AS THIS SYSTEM
APPROACHES THE REGION...A DRYLINE WILL DEVELOP THE SOUTH PLAINS
THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS LATER THIS EVENING.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP EAST OF THE DRYLINE BY LATE
AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL STORM DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR DURING THE
EVENING AS THE DRYLINE SURGES TO THE EAST. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP
WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE MODERATE RISK
AREA.

FIRE WEATHER

WITH THE APPROACHING STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM TO THE WEST
WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 25 TO 30 MPH RANGE. RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES BY THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO LESS THAN
15 PERCENT AND A COMBINATION OF WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES
WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ON THE CAPROCK. A
RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE SOUTH
PLAINS AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...GENERALLY NEAR
AND WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 27/U.S. HIGHWAY 87 CORRIDOR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
A HIGH WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL LOCATIONS ON SATURDAY.
SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE. WIDESPREAD BLOWING DUST IS ALSO ANTICIPATED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE AND ROLLING PLAINS.

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND FIRE PLANNING OFFICIALS SHOULD BE AWARE OF
THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH ON THE CAPROCK AND EXTREME
SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 23, 4:49 AM CSTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 6 more15 hr
Feb 23, 3:28 PM CSTHigh Wind WarningLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more27 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.