Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2012, 11:25 PM CDT for Dickens County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 14, 2012, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dickens County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:06 AM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 5 E Matador, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 5237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
685 WUUS54 KLUB 150425 SVRLUB TXC125-345-150500- /O.NEW.KLUB.SV.W.0049.120415T0425Z-120415T0500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1125 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. SOUTHERN MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL... AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCAD00...OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF CROSBYTON... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MATADOR. 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 600 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3372 10104 3404 10104 3417 10068 3388 10051 TIME...MOT...LOC 0426Z 242DEG 39KT 3383 10102 $$
1 follow-up statement
799 WWUS54 KLUB 150441 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1141 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 TXC125-345-150500- /O.CON.KLUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-120415T0500Z/ DICKENS TX-MOTLEY TX- 1141 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN MOTLEY AND NORTHWESTERN DICKENS COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 1140 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF MATADOR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MATADOR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK AT 8067451290. && LAT...LON 3372 10104 3404 10104 3417 10068 3388 10051 TIME...MOT...LOC 0441Z 247DEG 35KT 3393 10084 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 67 min |
| Apr 14, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 11:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 11:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 11:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress, Hall | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 11:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 23 min |
| Apr 15, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 30 min |
| Apr 15, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 15 min |
| Apr 15, 1:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent, King, Stonewall | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 8:56 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 16 more | 8 hr |
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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.