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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 30, 2010, 7:59 PM CST for Castro County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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
- Dec 30, 2010, 7:59 PM CST (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 30, 2010, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Castro County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 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 Dec 30, 5:55 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 30, 5:55 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 30, 3:44 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 344 PM CST THU DEC 30 2010 TXZ021>044-312145- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 344 PM CST THU DEC 30 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...REMAINDER OF TODAY AND TONIGHT NON PRECIPITATION STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS AT TIMES GUSTING UP TO 50 MPH...AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND AN ELEVATED GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL SUBSIDE BY SUNSET BEFORE A STRONG COLD FRONT SWEEPS ACROSS THE REGION LATE TONIGHT. WESTERLY WINDS BEHIND THIS FRONT WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 30 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS POSSIBLY APPROACHING 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY DESPITE MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES ON FRIDAY...WINDS WILL AGAIN BECOME QUITE STRONG THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE REGION DURING THE PRE- DAWN HOURS BEFORE DIMINISHING LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. COMBINED WITH EXCEPTIONALLY DRY AIR...THESE WINDS WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 27. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS ON FRIDAY IN ADDITION TO A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WIND OR POOR VISIBILITY FROM BLOWING DUST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 7:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 36 min |
| Dec 31, 5:54 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 15 more | 11 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2010Every severe thunderstorm 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.