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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 1, 2013, 2:25 PM CDT for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2013, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2013, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Hall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 1, 12:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 12:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 11:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1131 AM CDT MON APR 1 2013 TXZ021>044-021645- 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 MON APR 1 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND EAST OF THE I-27 CORRIDOR THIS AFTERNOON... INCLUDING MOST OF THE ROLLING PLAINS AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INITIATE SOMETIME IN THE MID AFTERNOON... NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF A SHARPENING DRYLINE AND SOUTHWARD ADVANCING COLD FRONT... AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE ISOLATED AT FIRST...BUT WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS THE EVENING WEARS ON. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. IN ADDITION... A BRIEF... ISOLATED TORNADO IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION IN THE LATE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING EARLY TUESDAY MORNING... AND WHILE THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LOWER THAN MONDAY A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY IN THE DAY. BY EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL WANE AS A STRONG COLD FRONT SURGES WELL TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA. RAIN SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE...HOWEVER...AND WILL LIKELY PERSIST THROUGH THE DAYTIME AND OVERNIGHT HOURS... PARTICULARLY IN THE ROLLING PLAINS. ON WEDNESDAY... RAIN SHOWERS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ONGOING IN THE MORNING... BUT WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. BEYOND WEDNESDAY... THE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL BE VERY LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 1, 2:25 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 225 PM CDT MON APR 1 2013 TXZ025-012000- HALL- 225 PM CDT MON APR 1 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALL COUNTY... AT 220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL HALL COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. NICKEL 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 3470 10074 3454 10055 3438 10080 3452 10095 TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 228DEG 6KT 3451 10079 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Swisher | 36 min |
| Apr 1, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 47 min |
| Apr 1, 4:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 24 min |
| Apr 1, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 32 min |
| Apr 1, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 48 min |
| Apr 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 33 min |
| Apr 1, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 35 min |
| Apr 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 48 min |
| Apr 1, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 52 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.