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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 17, 2008Castro County, Parmer County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT for Castro County, Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 17, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Castro County, TX, Parmer County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -496 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 17, 3:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 11:20 AM CDT, 6 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1120 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 2008

TXZ021>044-181630-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1120 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER EASTERN NEW
MEXICO...THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND POSSIBLY THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS
AS AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA
EARLY TODAY MOVES TO THE WEST TOWARD THE NEW MEXICO STATE LINE.
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO EVOLVE
INTO SUPERCELLS WITH EVENTUAL ORGANIZATION INTO A COMPLEX OF
THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST
AND SPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS OVERNIGHT.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS INITIALLY WITH
AN ISOLATED TORNADO A LIMITED POSSIBILITY WITH ANY SUPERCELLS THIS
EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS ARE EXPECTED TO EVOLVE TOWARD DAMAGING
WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND
PARTICULARLY DURING THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS WEDNESDAY
THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE WILL BE A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS...IN PARTICULAR A POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND
LARGE HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 2:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
234 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2008

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

1016 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG JAYTON                  33.25N 100.57W
06/16/2008                   KENT               TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

            TIN WRAPPED AROUND TREE...FIRE DEPT. ALSO REPORTED TIN
            BLOWN OFF ROOFS

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00122

FB

Local storm report, Jun 17, 2:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
239 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2008

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

1016 PM     TSTM WND DMG     JAYTON                  33.25N 100.57W
06/16/2008                   KENT               TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

            TIN WRAPPED AROUND TREE...FIRE DEPT. ALSO REPORTED TIN
            BLOWN OFF ROOFS

&&

CORRECTED EVENT

EVENT NUMBER 00122

FB

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:09 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
609 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2008

TXZ021-022-172345-
PARMER TX-CASTRO TX-
609 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2008

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING CASTRO AND PARMER COUNTIES...

AT 605 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DEAF SMITH COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BLACK...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF FRIONA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

THIS STORM CONTINUES TO INDICATE THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS AS IT APPROACHES BLACK AND SUMMERFIELD. BE PREPARED
TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Kent	61 min
Jun 16, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Cottle, Hall, Motley	60 min
Jun 16, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	60 min
Jun 16, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall	44 min
Jun 16, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	23 min
Jun 17, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Parmer	42 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.