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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2012, 12:49 AM CDT for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 6, 2012, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2012, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Crosby County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Jun 5, 11:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 11:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:10 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 6, 12:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 1:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 3:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 4:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 5:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 6:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 6:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Swisher | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 7:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Crosby, Hale, Lubbock | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:35 AM CDT | Flood Watch | LUB | Castro, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Lamb and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 8:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 8:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Swisher | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 8:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Garza | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 9:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 9:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 85 min |
| Jun 6, 9:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 10:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Hale, Swisher | 97 min |
| Jun 6, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle, Hall, Motley | 67 min |
| Jun 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hall | 78 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.