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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 19, 2007Castro County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2007, 9:29 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
Jun 19, 2007, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2007, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Castro County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3305 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
3305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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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 Jun 19, 6:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
826 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     HAIL             BLACK                   34.68N 102.61W
06/19/2007  E0.75 INCH       PARMER             TX   PUBLIC

            HAIL AT GRAIN ELEVATOR ABOUT 820 PM AND ESTIMATED 60
            MPH WIND AROUND 810 PM

&&

GJE
Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:30 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
830 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     TSTM WND GST     BLACK                   34.68N 102.61W
06/19/2007  E60 MPH          PARMER             TX   PUBLIC

            HAIL AT GRAIN ELEVATOR ABOUT 820 PM AND ESTIMATED 60
            MPH WIND AROUND 810 PM

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:45 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
845 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007

TXZ021-200215-
PARMER TX-
845 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS PARMER COUNTY...

AT 842 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION
OF PARMER COUNTY. ADDITIONALLY...A STRONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WAS
MOVING SOUTH OUT AHEAD OF THE STORM BRINGING GUSTY WINDS. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 9:04 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
904 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007

TXZ022-023-200300-
CASTRO TX-SWISHER TX-
904 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS SWISHER AND CASTRO COUNTIES...

AT 902 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN CASTRO COUNTY
FROM EAST OF SUMMERFIELD TO EXTREME NORTHEAST CASTRO COUNTY. THIS
LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONALLY...STRONG
OUTFLOW WINDS HAD PUSHED SOUTHEAST AHEAD OF THE STORMS INTO CENTRAL
CASTRO AND NORTHWEST SWISHER COUNTIES.

SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THESE 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer59 min
Jun 19, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro24 min
Jun 19, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher55 min
Jun 19, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb66 min
Jun 19, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley60 min
Jun 20, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress55 min
Jun 20, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock64 min
Jun 20, 12:31 AM CDTHigh Wind WarningLUBBriscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 6 more2 hr
Jun 20, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle65 min
Jun 20, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn62 min
Jun 20, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry39 min
Jun 20, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall53 min
Jun 20, 7:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum58 min

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.