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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2013, 6:56 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
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2013, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2013, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Parmer County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 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 May 25, 6:52 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:52 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 11:31 AM CDT, 7 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1131 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 TXZ021>044-261645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1131 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER PRIMARILY THE WESTERN PANHANDLE INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS COULD ORGANIZE AND BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND FAR WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND...PRIMARILY LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN INCREASED THREAT FOR MORE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND FAR WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 25, 4:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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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.