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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2008, 6:14 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 14, 2008, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 14, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:37 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 537 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 TXZ022-023-142300- CASTRO TX-SWISHER TX- 537 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS SWISHER AND CASTRO COUNTIES... AT 535 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF HAPPY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:41 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 54 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.