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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 14, 2012, 11:15 PM CDT for Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2012, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2012, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 14, 10:58 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 10:58 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 912 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 TXZ021>044-160215- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 912 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT CONVECTIVE AS OF 9 PM THE DRYLINE HAD RETREATED WEST TO NEAR A TAHOKA TO LUBBOCK TO SILVERTON LINE WHILE A PACIFIC COLD FRONT HAD MOVED EASTWARD INTO THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHWESTERN PANHANDLE AIDED BY AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM THAT WAS MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. THERE CONTINUE TO BE INDICATIONS THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG THE COLD FRONT ONCE IT MEETS THE DRYLINE. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORM WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...PARTICULARLY ONCE THEY REACH THE BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AND THE ROLLING PLAINS.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 14, 10:37 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Apr 14, 11:07 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1107 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1036 PM HAIL 7 N LOCKNEY 34.22N 101.44W
04/14/2012 E1.75 INCH FLOYD TX FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
ALONG HIGHWAY 378
&&
EVENT NUMBER LUB1200148
FBLocal storm report, Apr 14, 11:09 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1109 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1047 PM HAIL SILVERTON 34.47N 101.30W
04/14/2012 M2.00 INCH BRISCOE TX TRAINED SPOTTER
TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS 2 INCH HAIL
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EVENT NUMBER LUB1200149
JORDANSpecial weather statement, Apr 14, 11:15 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1115 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 TXZ030-031-150445- FLOYD-MOTLEY- 1115 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FLOYD AND MOTLEY COUNTIES... AT 1110 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM EXTREME NORTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY TO CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 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 THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. LAT...LON 3414 10062 3395 10127 3431 10114 3431 10056 TIME...MOT...LOC 0415Z 261DEG 36KT 3432 10103 3397 10114
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, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 35 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 |
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.