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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 23, 2008Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2008, 3:06 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 23, 2008, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2008, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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
Apr 23, 9:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 23, 10:07 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 2797 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 13.3

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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 Apr 23, 9:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 9:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
942 AM CDT WED APR 23 2008

.UPDATE...
MADE SOME MINOR CHANGES TO THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES OVER THE SOUTH
PLAINS REGION. SEVERE THREAT CONTINUES TO INCREASE AS JET ENERGY
MOVES INTO WEST TEXAS.

WILL NEED TO MONITOR LOCATION OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARIES THIS
AFTERNOON. THIS WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON WHERE WE WILL SEE
SURFACE BASED CONVECTION INTO THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
FRIONA        78  51  86  47  76 /  50  10   0   0   0
TULIA         71  53  88  51  74 /  60  20   0   0   0
PLAINVIEW     72  52  89  51  77 /  60  20   0   0   0
LEVELLAND     81  51  89  51  79 /  60  10   0   0   0
LUBBOCK       75  55  90  53  78 /  60  20   0   0   0
BROWNFIELD    82  53  91  52  81 /  50  10   0   0   0
CHILDRESS     74  60  91  59  78 /  70  40   0   0   0
SPUR          76  58  92  57  80 /  60  20   0   0   0
ASPERMONT     80  64  93  64  82 /  70  50   0  10  10

&&

.LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

18/99

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 10:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	34 min
Apr 23, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	38 min
Apr 23, 11:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	29 min
Apr 23, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	40 min
Apr 23, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	30 min
Apr 23, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	29 min
Apr 23, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Parmer	29 min
Apr 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	26 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.