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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 23, 20134 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2013, 3:13 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 32 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 23, 2013, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, King County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 23, 1:38 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 913 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -404 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 23, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1236 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

.AVIATION...
THE MAIN AVIATION CONCERN WILL BE FOR SEVERE TSRA IN THE VICINITY
OF BOTH TERMINALS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. INCLUDED A TEMPO FOR
THE PERIOD MOST LIKELY TO IMPACT EACH TERMINAL THRU EARLY
EVENING....BUT LOW CHANCES OF -TSRA AND -SHRA WILL LINGER THROUGH
THE NIGHT. SEVERE WIND GUSTS...TURBULENCE AND HAIL WILL BE FOUND
IN THE VICINITY OF STORMS AS WELL HAS BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HVY
RAIN AND IFR TO LIFR CONDITIONS. ADDITIONALLY...AREAS OF LOW
CLOUDS AND FOG MAY DEVELOP OVERNIGHT BUT CONFIDENCE IS VERY LOW AT
THIS TIME REGARDING COVERAGE AND TIMING. VFR CONDITIONS LIKELY TO
RETURN FRI MID-MORN.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
FRIONA        91  59  82  60  82 /  30  30  50  30  20
TULIA         88  61  83  62  82 /  60  50  50  30  20
PLAINVIEW     92  62  84  63  82 /  60  60  50  30  20
LEVELLAND     94  62  84  64  82 /  40  50  50  30  20
LUBBOCK       94  62  86  65  83 /  30  60  50  30  20
DENVER CITY   93  62  85  64  82 /  30  30  50  30  20
BROWNFIELD    93  62  86  65  83 /  30  50  50  30  20
CHILDRESS     89  64  85  66  84 /  60  60  30  30  20
SPUR          94  64  87  66  83 /  30  60  50  30  20
ASPERMONT     95  67  87  67  84 /  20  60  30  40  20

&&

.LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 11:08 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1108 AM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

TXZ021>044-241615-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1108 AM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS THE HAZARDOUS OUTLOOK AREA. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN WILL
BE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH
PLAIN...CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS AND THE ROLLING PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS
WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH...AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS. AN ISOLATED
THREAT FOR TORNADOES CAN NOT BE RULED OUT BEFORE 8 PM THIS
EVENING...PARTICULARLY FROM THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE
ACROSS TO THE CENTRAL ROLLING PLAINS. THE SLOW STORM MOTION WILL
PROMOTE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. LATER THIS EVENING THE PRIMARY
SEVERE THREAT WILL TRANSITION TO DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS...MAINLY ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY INTO THE
HOLIDAY WEEKEND ACROSS HAZARDOUS OUTLOOK AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 2:24 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
224 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0223 PM     HAIL             3 E FLOYDADA            33.98N 101.28W
05/23/2013  M1.00 INCH       FLOYD              TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1300214

CALDRICH

Local storm report, May 23, 2:26 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
226 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0222 PM     TORNADO          2 S CEDAR HILL          34.11N 101.20W
05/23/2013                   FLOYD              TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1300215

CALDRICH

Local storm report, May 23, 2:31 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
231 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0230 PM     TORNADO          6 E FLOYDADA            33.98N 101.23W
05/23/2013                   FLOYD              TX   SKYWARN SPOTTER

            BRIEF TOUCHDOWNS

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1300216

CALDRICH

Local storm report, May 23, 2:42 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
242 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0241 PM     WALL CLOUD       4 W ROARING SPRINGS     33.90N 100.93W
05/23/2013                   MOTLEY             TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1300217

CALDRICH

Local storm report, May 23, 3:04 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 1:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	22 min
May 23, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	46 min
May 23, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	25 min
May 23, 2:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Motley	107 min
May 23, 2:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	46 min
May 23, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	50 min
May 23, 3:44 PM CDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Hale, Lubbock	72 min
May 23, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley	51 min
May 23, 4:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Dickens, King	110 min
May 23, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	26 min
May 23, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, Motley	47 min
May 23, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Kent	37 min
May 23, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	32 min
May 23, 4:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	106 min
May 23, 4:56 PM CDT	Dust Storm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn	64 min
May 23, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	38 min
May 23, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	47 min
May 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	104 min
May 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall	60 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.