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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 15, 2013Parmer County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2013, 6:41 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 2013, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2013, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Parmer County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 353 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2013-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 205 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2013-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 15, 6:20 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 6:20 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 6:15 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 7:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher25 min
Aug 14, 8:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher32 min
Aug 14, 8:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher29 min
Aug 14, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Swisher33 min
Aug 14, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher32 min
Aug 14, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Swisher15 min
Aug 14, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Swisher34 min
Aug 14, 9:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe27 min
Aug 14, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale34 min
Aug 14, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale24 min
Aug 14, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale36 min
Aug 14, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHale, Lubbock21 min
Aug 14, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lubbock31 min
Aug 14, 11:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHale36 min
Aug 14, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock34 min
Aug 14, 11:42 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBHale, Swisher108 min
Aug 14, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale46 min
Aug 15, 12:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock29 min
Aug 15, 12:35 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLubbock115 min
Aug 15, 12:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLynn32 min
Aug 15, 12:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby, Hockley, Lubbock28 min
Aug 15, 1:02 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCrosby88 min
Aug 15, 1:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLynn33 min
Aug 15, 1:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby, Lubbock26 min
Aug 15, 1:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLynn31 min
Aug 15, 5:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBParmer35 min
Aug 15, 6:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBParmer30 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.