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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 9, 2013Dickens County, Motley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2013, 6:12 PM CDT for Dickens County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
May 9, 2013, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Dickens County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2013-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1149 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2013-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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 May 8, 6:33 PM CDT, 23 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 6:33 PM CDT, 23 hours 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 4:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBFloyd9 min
May 9, 4:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBFloyd15 min
May 9, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBFloyd15 min
May 9, 5:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe, Floyd28 min
May 9, 5:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby32 min
May 9, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens28 min
May 9, 5:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe23 min
May 9, 6:08 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBriscoe2 hr
May 9, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBFloyd16 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.