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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2008, 8:51 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 14, 2008, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2008, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 62 min |
| Aug 14, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent and 3 more | 67 min |
| Aug 14, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 2:45 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LUB | Castro | 2 hr |
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.