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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2014, 3:41 PM CDT for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 28, 2014, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2014, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 2.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Hall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 Aug 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 5:46 AM CDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 546 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014 TXZ021>044-291100- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 546 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG...AND BRIEFLY SEVERE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. IN ADDITIONS...STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 1:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
130 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
TXZ024-025-281900-
BRISCOE-HALL-
130 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BRISCOE AND HALL COUNTIES...
AT 126 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL HALL COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.
IN ADDITION...ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS...ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS
TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS
PASSED.
LAT...LON 3465 10062 3450 10093 3461 10101 3475 10089
3475 10080
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 225DEG 9KT 3461 10090Special weather statement, Aug 28, 1:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
158 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
TXZ025-281930-
HALL-
158 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALL COUNTY...
AT 156 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL HALL COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 5 MPH.
IN ADDITION...NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING...FREQUENT DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS
TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS
PASSED.
LAT...LON 3472 10058 3456 10077 3452 10093 3458 10095
3472 10094 3476 10089 3475 10067
TIME...MOT...LOC 1858Z 234DEG 4KT 3461 10085Special weather statement, Aug 28, 2:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
232 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
TXZ025-282000-
HALL-
232 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALL COUNTY...
AT 229 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL HALL COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.
IN ADDITION...NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING...FREQUENT DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS
TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS
PASSED.
LAT...LON 3459 10053 3444 10076 3441 10094 3474 10095
3476 10086 3475 10054
TIME...MOT...LOC 1932Z 238DEG 19KT 3462 10078Special weather statement, Aug 28, 2:58 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
258 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
TXZ025-282045-
HALL-
258 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALL COUNTY...
AT 253 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL HALL COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.
IN ADDITION...NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...CONTINUOUS
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...FREQUENT DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE
OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS
TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS
PASSED.
LAT...LON 3475 10061 3462 10045 3444 10083 3443 10094
3467 10095 3475 10085
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 236DEG 30KT 3459 10082Special weather statement, Aug 28, 3:08 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 308 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014 TXZ029-030-282045- FLOYD-HALE- 308 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALE AND FLOYD COUNTIES... AT 304 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL HALE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IN ADDITION...PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...FREQUENT DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3427 10151 3405 10136 3393 10179 3413 10179 TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 247DEG 12KT 3409 10161
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 1:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 30 min |
| Aug 28, 1:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 32 min |
| Aug 28, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 28 min |
| Aug 28, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 47 min |
| Aug 28, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale | 37 min |
| Aug 28, 3:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hall | 95 min |
| Aug 28, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 23 min |
| Aug 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 29 min |
| Aug 28, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lynn | 30 min |
| Aug 28, 4:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 27 min |
| Aug 28, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 46 min |
| Aug 28, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 29 min |
| Aug 28, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 31 min |
| Aug 28, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 10 min |
| Aug 28, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby | 36 min |
| Aug 28, 4:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Childress, Hall, Motley | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 16 min |
| Aug 28, 5:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 54 min |
| Aug 28, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 35 min |
| Aug 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 16 min |
| Aug 28, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 22 min |
| Aug 28, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 23 min |
| Aug 28, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 40 min |
| Aug 28, 6:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cottle, King | 117 min |
| Aug 28, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 25 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.