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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT for Castro County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2008, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Castro County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 4:27 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 Se Hart, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 894 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KLUB 052041
SVRLUB
TXC069-437-052145-
/O.NEW.KLUB.SV.W.0252.080905T2041Z-080905T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
341 PM CDT FRI SEP 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CASTRO COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.
SWISHER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 338 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12
MILES WEST OF HAPPY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIMMITT...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE HAPPY AND RURAL
PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST CASTRO AND NORTHWEST SWISHER COUNTIES.
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0.
LAT...LON 3475 10157 3437 10157 3435 10223 3445 10224
3466 10218 3476 10214 3476 10161
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 293DEG 13KT 3468 10204
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KLUB 052115
SVSLUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
415 PM CDT FRI SEP 5 2008
TXC069-437-052145-
/O.CON.KLUB.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-080905T2145Z/
CASTRO TX-SWISHER TX-
413 PM CDT FRI SEP 5 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR SWISHER AND EASTERN CASTRO COUNTIES...
AT 407 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF TULIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES WEST
OF NAZARETH AND NEAR HART.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
TULIA...NAZARETH...KRESS AND HART .
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3475 10157 3437 10157 3435 10223 3445 10224
3466 10218 3476 10214 3476 10161
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 293DEG 13KT 3457 10190
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 52 min |
| Sep 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hall | 68 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.