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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2009, 4:25 PM CDT for King County, Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 6, 2009, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2009, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 11:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1147 AM CDT SAT JUN 6 2009 TXZ021>044-071700- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1147 AM CDT SAT JUN 6 2009 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 THIS EVENING GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM MEMPHIS TO MATADOR TO POST. THE DRYLINE WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. THE COMBINATION OF MARGINAL MOISTURE LEVELS AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS BY LATE AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND SECONDARILY LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE DRYLINE AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE EXTREME EASTERN ROLLING PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:12 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
412 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2009
TXZ035-036-042-062145-
CROSBY TX-LUBBOCK TX-GARZA TX-
412 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2009
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CROSBY COUNTY...
AT 408 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF SOUTHLAND...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
EAST OF SLATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
RALLS...5 MILES EAST OF CROSBYTON...AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCADOO
IN EXTREME NORTHEAST CROSBY COUNTY...ALL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE NEAR
THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3333 10157 3339 10156 3339 10163 3345 10169
3374 10120 3359 10104 3331 10155
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 230DEG 15KT 3345 10153Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:19 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
419 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2009
TXZ038-044-062145-
KING TX-STONEWALL TX-
419 PM CDT SAT JUN 6 2009
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS STONEWALL AND KING COUNTIES...
AT 416 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER STONEWALL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
NORTHEAST OF ASPERMONT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE NEAR
THIS THUNDERSTORM. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3317 10011 3331 10025 3351 9999 3347 9998
3324 9998
TIME...MOT...LOC 2117Z 209DEG 12KT 3330 10009
JAMESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.