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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2011, 6:40 PM CDT for Kent County, King County, Stonewall County, 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
- Jun 8, 2011, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2011, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 3143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 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 8, 6:09 PM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:09 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 11:17 AM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1117 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 TXZ021>044-091630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1117 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE ISOLATED HIGH-BASED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A SILVERTON TO DICKENS TO O'DONNELL LINE. ALTHOUGH ANY ACTIVITY THAT DEVELOPS WILL BRING LITTLE RAINFALL...THE STRONGEST PRECIPITATION CORES ALOFT WILL BE CAPABLE OF GENERATING BRIEF AND LOCALIZED DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. FIRE WEATHER VERY HOT AND BREEZY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER ACROSS MUCH OF THE CAPROCK THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 528 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 TXZ037-043-082300- DICKENS-KENT- 528 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KENT AND SOUTHERN DICKENS COUNTIES... AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF JAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. WINDS UP TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS DEVELOPING STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:46 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 546 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 TXZ025-026-031-032-082315- CHILDRESS-COTTLE-HALL-MOTLEY- 546 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COTTLE...CHILDRESS...MOTLEY AND HALL COUNTIES... AT 541 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN CHILDRESS...CEE VEE...NORTHFIELD AND TURKEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WINDS UP TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE DEVELOPING STORMS...THOUGH RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHT AND HIT AND MISS. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:59 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 559 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 TXZ037-038-043-044-082330- DICKENS-KENT-KING-STONEWALL- 559 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STONEWALL...KING...KENT AND DICKENS COUNTIES... AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR DICKENS TO JUST NORTH OF CLAIREMONT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:22 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, Stonewall | 24 min |
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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.