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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at May 18, 2013, 5:31 AM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 18, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2013, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1089 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 18, 5:17 AM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 5:17 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1136 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2013 TXZ021>044-181645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1136 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ELEVATED TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON THE CAPROCK SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WHERE A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT. ELEVATED TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY AFTERNOONS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND ROLLING PLAINS. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 12:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lamb | 32 min |
| May 18, 1:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Hale, Lamb, Parmer | 41 min |
| May 18, 1:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hale, Kent, Motley | 31 min |
| May 18, 2:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe, Castro, Floyd, Hale, Motley, Swisher | 66 min |
| May 18, 3:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hall, Motley and 1 more | 54 min |
| May 18, 3:18 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 13 hr |
| May 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 15 min |
| May 18, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 12 min |
| May 18, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 11 min |
| May 18, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 34 min |
| May 18, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle | 17 min |
| May 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 9 min |
| May 18, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle | 27 min |
| May 18, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress | 19 min |
| May 18, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress | 14 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.