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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 17, 2010Hale County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2010, 7:43 AM CDT for Hale 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: May 17, 2010, 7:43 AM CDT (12:43 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2010, 8:18 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Hale County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 2459 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.8

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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 17, 6:58 AM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 6:58 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 7:05 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 7:37 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 16, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	48 min
May 16, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	43 min
May 16, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress	39 min
May 17, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	64 min
May 17, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Hale, Swisher	61 min
May 17, 8:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Hale	3 hr
May 17, 10:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Floyd	2 hr
May 17, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	59 min
May 17, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	59 min
May 17, 11:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Dickens, Kent	115 min
May 17, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	49 min
May 17, 12:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Kent, King, Stonewall	118 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.