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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 7, 2007Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2007, 5:01 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
Aug 7, 2007, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2007, 5:35 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 2007-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1463 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 2007-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 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
1463 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1206 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 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 Aug 7, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 3:02 AM CDT, 13 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
302 AM CDT TUE AUG 7 2007

TXZ021>044-080815-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
302 AM CDT TUE AUG 7 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:44 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
444 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2007

TXZ035-041-072215-
LUBBOCK TX-LYNN TX-
444 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS LYNN AND LUBBOCK COUNTIES...

AT 442 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF WOODROW...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SLATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN LYNN
AND SOUTHEASTERN LUBBOCK COUNTIES MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY
87. HIGHWAY 41 AND 84 MAY ALSO BE AFFECTED BY THE STRONGER WIND
GUSTS.

BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

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.