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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2013, 5:45 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2013, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dickens County, TX, Garza County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 413 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 .SHORT TERM... THIS EVENING...WEAK LARGE-SCALE ASCENT AND STRONG LOW-LVL JET WILL LIKELY MAINTAIN SOME CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY THROUGH AROUND MIDNIGHT...AND POSSIBLY INTO THE EARLY MORNING HRS ACROSS THE S-SE FOR A SLOW-MOVING MCS THAT COULD BRING A HEAVY RAIN THREAT. AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA WITH MILD OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPS. THE FORECAST FOR FRIDAY WILL DEPEND GREATLY ON ANY LINGERING MORNING CONVECTION AND CONVECTIVE DEBRIS. UPPER RIDGE AXIS WILL BE WELL EAST OF THE FA AND LOWER HEIGHTS SHOULD RESULT IN COOLER TEMPS - HIGHS MAY STRUGGLE TO MAKE IT NORTH OF THE MIDDLE 80S IF MORNING CLOUD COVER HANGS ON. AFTERNOON STORM CHANCES STILL APPEAR VALID ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. THE DRYLINE WILL BE BACKED WEST INTO NEW MEXICO SO THERE WILL NOT BE A STRONG SFC FORCING MECHANISM...BUT THERE WILL LIKELY BE SUFFICIENT CONVERGENCE IN THE SURFACE TROUGH FROM THE FAR SRN PANHANDLE TO THE SW SPLNS. WEAK DEEP-LAYER FLOW WILL FAVOR WEAKLY ORGANIZED SLOW-MOVING STORMS. SVR HAIL AND WIND WILL STILL BE A THREAT WITH LARGE INSTABILITY. && .LONG TERM... MINIMAL UPDATES TO THE EXTENDED FORECAST IN LIGHT OF IMPENDING SEVERE WX THREAT. AN ACTIVE DRYLINE IS STILL A GOOD BET EACH DAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK UNDER A WEAKLY UNSETTLED SWLY FLOW REGIME. THIS PATTERN WILL LIKELY AMPLIFY BY MIDWEEK AS A MEDIUM WAVE TROUGH EJECTS OUT OF THE GREAT BASIN AND FOUR CORNERS REGION...HOWEVER THE TIMING OF THIS WAVE LEADS TO CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY IN WHERE THE DRYLINE WILL RESIDE AS THE GFS FAVORS A FASTER WAVE AND MORE EASTERLY DRYLINE VERSUS A SLOWER WAVE AND MORE WESTERLY DRYLINE LONGITUDE PER THE ECMWF AND SOME OF THE GEFS MEMBERS. SEASONABLE TEMPS OVERALL THROUGH NEXT WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 59 86 60 81 60 / 40 50 30 20 20 TULIA 63 84 62 81 61 / 50 50 30 20 20 PLAINVIEW 64 85 63 81 62 / 60 50 30 20 20 LEVELLAND 64 86 64 81 61 / 50 50 30 20 20 LUBBOCK 66 84 65 82 64 / 60 50 30 20 20 DENVER CITY 63 86 64 81 61 / 30 50 30 20 20 BROWNFIELD 64 86 65 82 62 / 50 50 30 20 20 CHILDRESS 65 84 66 83 66 / 60 30 30 20 20 SPUR 67 82 66 82 64 / 60 50 30 20 20 ASPERMONT 68 84 67 83 68 / 60 30 40 20 20 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... BLOWING DUST ADVISORY UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ029-035-036. && 33/93
Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 11:08 AM CDT, 6 hours 37 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
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 32 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 |
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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.