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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2013, 3:00 PM CDT for Castro County, Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 28, 2013, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2013, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Castro County, TX, Parmer County, TX
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 28, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 28, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 11:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1115 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013 TXZ021>044-291615- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1115 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A LINE FROM SWISHER TO TERRY COUNTY BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON...AND WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE EAST NORTHEAST INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS UPON DEVELOPMENT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO BECOME ORGANIZED WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF TENNIS BALLS... IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... INCLUDING POTENTIALLY VERY LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. FARTHER WEST... ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 20 min |
| May 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 32 min |
| May 28, 3:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey | 23 min |
| May 28, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 29 min |
| May 28, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 33 min |
| May 28, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 36 min |
| May 28, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 32 min |
| May 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 31 min |
| May 28, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Parmer | 26 min |
| May 28, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.