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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2014, 7:06 PM CDT for Castro County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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 21, 2014, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Castro County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 21, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 407 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 21, 6:10 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 6:10 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1119 AM CDT WED MAY 21 2014 TXZ021>044-221630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1119 AM CDT WED MAY 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A DRYLINE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN PRIMARILY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL PERIODICALLY VISIT THE ENTIRE SOUTH PLAINS REGION FRIDAY THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THIS ACTIVITY WILL BRING THE RISK OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH A THREAT OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.