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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2008, 7:59 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 16 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 5, 2008, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County King County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 6049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 5, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 11:41 AM CDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1141 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 TXZ021>044-061645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1141 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2008 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 RISK OF ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN ROLLING PLAINS...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM CHILDRESS TO JAYTON. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP. FIRE WEATHER THE COMBINATION OF HOT...DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS ALONG WITH A VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL TO EXTREMELY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER ALL AREAS BUT THE EASTERN ROLLING PLAINS. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. NON PRECIPITATION WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA TODAY. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE INTO THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE TODAY... WITH A FEW GUSTS TO NEAR 55 MPH POSSIBLE. STRONG CROSSWINDS ARE EXPECTED ON NORTH SOUTH ROADS...AND AREAS OF BLOWING DUST MAY CAUSE LOCAL REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
413 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0315 PM NON-TSTM WND DMG BROWNFIELD 33.18N 102.27W
06/05/2008 TERRY TX EMERGENCY MNGR
LOCALIZED HIGH WINDS BROKE WINDOWS OUT OF TWO VEHICLES
AND BLEW OUT THE DOOR AT A HOTEL. WITNESSES REPORTED
HEARING A ROAR ACCOMPANY THE WINDS AND PEBBLES HITTING
THE GLASS.UNKNOWN IF THE DAMAGING WINDS WERE LOCALIZED
GRADIENT WIND GUSTS OR A DUST DEVIL GIVEN THAT NEARBY
MESONET ONLY REPORTED GUSTS IN THE 30 MPH RANGE AT THE
TIME OF THE DAMAGE AND A PEAK GUST OF 49 MPH FOR THE DAY
THUS FAR. NO CUMULIFORM CLOUDS WERE PRESENT.
&&
TLINDLEYSpecial weather statement, Jun 5, 6:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 34 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.