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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2008, 3:45 PM CDT for Lynn County, Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 14, 2008, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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 14, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
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 14, 3:34 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:34 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 442 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 TXZ021>044-150945- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 442 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE PERIODS OF WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ARE EXPECTED TODAY...PARTICULARLY OVER THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IN ADDITION...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR. STORM CHANCES WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 14, 2:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 205 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 TXZ039-141930- YOAKUM TX- 205 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS YOAKUM COUNTY... AT 100 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BLEDSOE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF BRONCO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL TO DIME SIZE IS EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING BRONCO IS SHOWING SIGNS OF BECOMING STRONGER. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Local storm report, May 14, 3:11 PM CDT, 34 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 13, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 30 min |
| May 14, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 41 min |
| May 14, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 65 min |
| May 14, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 47 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.