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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2013, 5:53 PM CDT for Bailey County, Cochran County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 20, 2013, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2013, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 20, 3:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 11:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1156 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 TXZ021>044-211700- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1156 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY WEST OF A CHILDRESS TO POST LINE...WITH GREATEST CONCERN ACROSS THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. MAIN THREATS WILL BE BASEBALL SIZE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND PERHAPS AN ISOLATED TORNADO. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TO COMMENCE NEAR THE STATE LINE BY MID AFTERNOON THEN EDGE EAST LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MAINLY ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:04 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 504 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 TXZ027-033-202230- BAILEY-COCHRAN- 504 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COCHRAN AND BAILEY COUNTIES... AT 459 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF MORTON...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND MAPLE AND ENOCHS. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3399 10291 3390 10261 3366 10281 3373 10301 TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 202DEG 18KT 3378 10287 05
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:20 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 520 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 TXZ027-033-202245- BAILEY-COCHRAN- 520 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COCHRAN AND BAILEY COUNTIES... AT 516 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULESHOE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS UP TO 55 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3422 10304 3426 10270 3373 10268 3378 10304 TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 266DEG 30KT 3394 10317 05
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:46 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 546 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 TXZ027-028-033-202315- BAILEY-COCHRAN-LAMB- 546 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COCHRAN...LAMB AND BAILEY COUNTIES... AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND ENOCHS...THE MULESHOE WILDLIFE REFUGE AND MAPLE. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3410 10280 3393 10251 3371 10276 3383 10297 TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 213DEG 21KT 3385 10282 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 26 min |
| Jun 20, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cochran | 26 min |
| Jun 20, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey | 25 min |
| Jun 20, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey | 29 min |
| Jun 20, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 40 min |
| Jun 20, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 1 more | 49 min |
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.