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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 7, 2008Lamb County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2008, 4:02 AM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 7, 2008, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2008, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lamb County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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 6, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.9

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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 7, 3:56 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:56 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 2:48 PM CDT, 13 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
248 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

TXZ021>044-072000-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
248 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 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 LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT OVER ALL OF THE WEST TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS REGION.
ISOLATED STORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITHIN THE
CORRIDOR ROUGHLY BETWEEN THE NEW MEXICO STATE LINE AND THE
INTERSTATE 27 AND HIGHWAY 87. STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME MORE
SCATTERED DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS
WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SUPERCELLS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...
AND PERHAPS A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE
NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS TONIGHT.

IF THUNDERSTORMS IMPACT AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS MORNING/S HEAVY
RAINFALL...SOME ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING MAY OCCUR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 1:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 2:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 2:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 2:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 3:10 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 3:56 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Terry	43 min
May 6, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Hale	51 min
May 6, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lubbock	31 min
May 6, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley	29 min
May 6, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	21 min
May 6, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	26 min
May 6, 7:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	117 min
May 6, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Swisher	53 min
May 6, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	59 min
May 6, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Hale, Lamb	10 min
May 6, 7:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hale, Swisher	65 min
May 6, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher	29 min
May 6, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Motley, Swisher	18 min
May 6, 8:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Dickens	58 min
May 6, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	56 min
May 6, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, King	53 min
May 6, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Swisher	59 min
May 6, 8:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Briscoe	54 min
May 6, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	25 min
May 6, 8:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	King	61 min
May 6, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King	45 min
May 6, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	33 min
May 6, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	42 min
May 6, 9:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	2 hr
May 6, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King	43 min
May 6, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey	25 min
May 6, 10:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Yoakum	2 hr
May 6, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	36 min
May 6, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	45 min
May 6, 10:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hale, Lamb	114 min
May 6, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	38 min
May 6, 11:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	2 hr
May 7, 12:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Garza	119 min
May 7, 1:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Dickens, Motley	2 hr
May 7, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens	40 min
May 7, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn, Terry	30 min
May 7, 2:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lynn, Terry	118 min
May 7, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, King	52 min
May 7, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Lubbock	26 min
May 7, 3:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	26 min
May 7, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	24 min
May 7, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher	44 min
May 7, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	45 min
May 7, 11:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley	24 min
May 7, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	62 min
May 7, 12:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	2 hr
May 7, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lubbock, Lynn	10 min
May 7, 1:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby	117 min
May 7, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King	35 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.