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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2013, 7:45 PM CDT for Garza County, Lynn 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2013, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2013, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Garza County, TX, Lynn County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 17, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 17, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1152 AM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 TXZ021>044-181700- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1152 AM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO INTO THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON INTO EVENING. SUPERCELLS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS MODERATE INSTABILITY COMBINES WITH FAVORABLE TURNING OF WINDS WITH HEIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL TO TENNIS BALL SIZE AND WIND GUSTS OVER 65 MPH. A LIMITED TORNADO THREAT WILL ALSO EXIST...ESPECIALLY AS STORMS INTERACT WITH A WEST TO EAST FRONTAL BOUNDARY LYING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO EVENTUALLY FORM INTO A LARGER COMPLEX WHICH WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS LATE THIS EVENING AND INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS OVERNIGHT. THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO INTO WEST TEXAS LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. ANOTHER COMPLEX OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE AND MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS OUTLOOK AREA OVERNIGHT TUESDAY. BEYOND TUESDAY...THE PROSPECTS OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL BE LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY MORNING TUESDAY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:08 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent | 21 min |
| Jun 17, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 7:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 7:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 26 min |
| Jun 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb, Lubbock | 28 min |
| Jun 17, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 12 min |
| Jun 17, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Parmer | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 8:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 9:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Swisher | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 9:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Garza | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, Motley | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Dickens | 45 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.