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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 22, 20104 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at May 22, 2010, 2:27 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 22, 2010, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr. 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 22, 2010, 2:27 AM CDT (07:27 UTC)
In effect from
May 22, 2010, 2:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 22, 2010, 8:57 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2010-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 859 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2010-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
859 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe65 min
May 21, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall47 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010

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.