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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2013, 2:57 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 29, 2013, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2013, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Briscoe County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 29, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 3011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 11.1
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 29, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 11:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1132 AM CDT WED MAY 29 2013 TXZ021>044-301645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1132 AM CDT WED MAY 29 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...GENERALLY NORTH AND EAST OF A TURKEY TO PADUCAH LINE. A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS THE REST OF THE ROLLING PLAINS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE BY EARLY AFTERNOON... AND EXPAND SOUTHWARD INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE ROLLING PLAINS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP... WHILE AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST ACROSS HALL...CHILDRESS AND COTTLE COUNTIES. FIRE WEATHER ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 27 CORRIDOR FROM EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. A FIRE DANGER STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 2:52 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
252 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013
TXZ024-292015-
BRISCOE-
252 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BRISCOE COUNTY...
AT 248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SILVERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS
STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 3475 10104 3457 10095 3434 10133 3448 10147
3475 10132
TIME...MOT...LOC 1952Z 230DEG 22KT 3447 10132Local storm report, May 29, 2:57 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
257 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0255 PM HAIL SILVERTON 34.47N 101.30W
05/29/2013 E1.00 INCH BRISCOE TX CO-OP OBSERVER
DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
&&
EVENT NUMBER LUB1300271
CALDRICHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe | 23 min |
| May 29, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 12 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 34 min |
| May 29, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall | 14 min |
| May 29, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 33 min |
| May 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 35 min |
| May 29, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 32 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.