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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2010, 3:10 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 65 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 25, 2010, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2010, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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 25, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
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 25, 12:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 12:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1125 AM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010 TXZ021>044-261630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1125 AM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR IN THIS AREA WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SOME STORMS TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER...WITH THE MAIN THREATS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM OVERNIGHT STORM ACTIVITY WILL BE LOCATED IN THIS AREA...AND THERE IS A THREAT OF AN ISOLATED TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF THIS BOUNDARY. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...ALTHOUGH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LESS DUE TO LOWER INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WILL BRING A RISK OF LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA WEDNESDAY. DECREASING INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR WILL REDUCE THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. AFTER WEDNESDAY...THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 2:58 PM CDT, 12 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 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 36 min |
| May 24, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 45 min |
| May 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 55 min |
| May 25, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Parmer | 52 min |
| May 25, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 51 min |
| May 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 32 min |
| May 25, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 53 min |
| May 25, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 32 min |
| May 25, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 24 min |
| May 25, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 46 min |
| May 25, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 35 min |
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.