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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 25, 2014Terry County, Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2014, 12:58 AM CDT for Terry County, Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 25, 2014, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2014, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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 24, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 24, 11:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 11:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 12:46 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	31 min
May 25, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Terry	29 min
May 25, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock, Lynn	31 min
May 25, 2:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	105 min
May 25, 8:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	107 min
May 25, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lamb	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.