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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2008, 9:05 PM CDT for Castro County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- May 5, 2008, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Castro County, TX, Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 816 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 May 5, 8:56 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 8:56 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1126 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2008 TXZ021>044-061630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1126 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...MAINLY THE AREA ON THE CAPROCK. AS THE LOW CLOUDS OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO DISSIPATE...HEATING AND DESTABILIZATION WILL OCCUR...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THERE BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND THEN TRACK EASTWARD INTO THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND TEXAS PANHANDLE. WITH DEEP LAYER SHEAR SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS...THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS...HOWEVER AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT FOR ALL OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 7:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 61 min |
| May 5, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 56 min |
| May 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 67 min |
| May 5, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 60 min |
| May 5, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock | 46 min |
| May 6, 12:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 29 min |
| May 6, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 33 min |
| May 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 45 min |
| May 6, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 52 min |
| May 6, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn | 31 min |
| May 6, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb | 44 min |
| May 6, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 29 min |
| May 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 28 min |
| May 6, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 36 min |
| May 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 48 min |
| May 6, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 43 min |
| May 6, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 54 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.