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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2008, 1:12 AM CDT for Castro County, Hale County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 16, 2008, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2008, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Castro County, TX, Hale County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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 15, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Aug 15, 11:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 11:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 12:33 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1233 AM CDT SAT AUG 16 2008 TXZ021-160630- PARMER TX- 1233 AM CDT SAT AUG 16 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS PARMER COUNTY... AT 1230 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF RHEA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRIONA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 32 MPH. BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR OTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 7:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 8:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 114 min |
| Aug 16, 2:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 2 hr |
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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.