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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2008, 1:30 AM CDT for Childress County, Hall 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 19, 2008, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2008, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Childress County, TX, Hall County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:29 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 19, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 782 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
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 19, 1:00 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:00 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 19, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 23 min |
| Jun 19, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 43 min |
| Jun 19, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 67 min |
| Jun 19, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 25 min |
| Jun 19, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 57 min |
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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.