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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 25, 2013Parmer County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2013-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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 2013-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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 25, 6:52 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:52 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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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.