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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2013, 8:15 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2013, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 11:37 AM CDT, 8 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1137 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 TXZ021>044-061645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1137 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BOTH THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY. THE GREATEST AND MOST LIKELY THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR DURING THE EVENING HOURS AS A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND MOVE INTO THE SOUTH PLAINS... AND LATER INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS... DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THIS COMPLEX WOULD LIKELY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WITH AN ISOLATED TORNADO POSSIBLE AS WELL. EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON... THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS BOTH THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. HOWEVER... THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON IS LESS LIKELY THAN THE OVERNIGHT COMPLEX PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED...AND THE PLACEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL STORMS IS RELATIVELY UNCERTAIN. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO MANAGE TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS... AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY IN THE WEEKEND ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS... PARTICULARLY DURING THE EVENING AND AFTERNOON HOURS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME... HOWEVER ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Lamb, Parmer, Swisher | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 16 min |
| Jun 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 3 more | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 20 min |
| Jun 5, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Terry, Yoakum | 13 min |
| Jun 5, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry and 1 more | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Lubbock, Swisher | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 10:23 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Hale and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn and 1 more | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 10:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 108 min |
| Jun 5, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Kent and 2 more | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 12:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King, Stonewall | 26 min |
| Jun 6, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle, King | 43 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.