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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2012, 5:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 19 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2012, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2012, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hall County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 5:32 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 59 | 7 Ese Silverton, TX | WEST TEXAS MESONET REPORT |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
742
WUUS54 KLUB 262211
SVRLUB
TXC045-153-191-345-262230-
/O.NEW.KLUB.SV.W.0252.120926T2211Z-120926T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
511 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.
SOUTHWESTERN HALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.
NORTHWESTERN MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.
SOUTHEASTERN BRISCOE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
CAPROCK CANYON ST....OR NEAR QUITAQUE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE VALLEY SCHOOLS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8067451290.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3450 10076 3429 10090 3421 10122 3437 10134
3461 10114
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 316DEG 24KT 3442 10110
$$1 follow-up statement
649
WWUS54 KLUB 262222
SVSLUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
522 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012
TXC045-153-191-345-262230-
/O.CON.KLUB.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-120926T2230Z/
FLOYD TX-HALL TX-MOTLEY TX-BRISCOE TX-
522 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
BRISCOE...NORTHWESTERN MOTLEY...SOUTHWESTERN HALL AND NORTHEASTERN
FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT...
AT 519 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
RADAR...PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR QUITAQUE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
QUITAQUE...VALLEY SCHOOLS AND TURKEY.
LAT...LON 3450 10076 3429 10090 3421 10122 3437 10134
3461 10114
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 316DEG 24KT 3438 10106
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress | 14 min |
| Sep 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle | 23 min |
| Sep 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle | 25 min |
| Sep 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 17 min |
| Sep 25, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 43 min |
| Sep 25, 9:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 30 min |
| Sep 25, 9:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 20 min |
| Sep 26, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 36 min |
| Sep 26, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 31 min |
| Sep 26, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Terry | 44 min |
| Sep 26, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 27 min |
| Sep 26, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe | 25 min |
| Sep 26, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 13 min |
| Sep 26, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 25 min |
| Sep 26, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 44 min |
| Sep 26, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale | 26 min |
| Sep 26, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 39 min |
| Sep 26, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 26 min |
| Sep 26, 5:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock | 113 min |
| Sep 26, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lynn | 41 min |
| Sep 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 46 min |
| Sep 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Hall, Motley | 45 min |
| Sep 26, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 31 min |
| Sep 26, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 27 min |
| Sep 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, Lubbock and 2 more | 41 min |
| Sep 26, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 24 min |
| Sep 26, 6:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 93 min |
| Sep 26, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.