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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 18, 2014Lynn County, Terry County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2014, 7:01 PM CDT for Lynn County, Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 18, 2014, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2014, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1057 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 471 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 18, 6:10 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 6:10 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
316 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2014

TXZ021>044-192030-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
316 PM CDT WED JUN 18 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 WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY
ON THE CAPROCK THROUGH THE FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND
NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE
WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH...GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL...AND
LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

A CHANCE OF ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
HAZARDOUS OUTLOOK AREA...MAY OCCUR EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
FROM THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER
IS NOT EXPECTED...AN ISOLATED STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL
BE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRING THE
THREAT FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ON THE
CAPROCK AND THROUGH THE FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO THE
NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
430 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2014

TXZ022-028-029-182200-
CASTRO-HALE-LAMB-
430 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CASTRO...LAMB AND HALE
COUNTIES...

AT 429 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL LAMB COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

IN ADDITION...NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH... AND BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...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 3448 10206 3440 10200 3431 10200 3431 10193
      3429 10191 3411 10227 3426 10240
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 236DEG 18KT 3424 10225

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 6:28 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:43 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:43 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:54 PM CDT, 7 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
Jun 18, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Floyd	29 min
Jun 18, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	25 min
Jun 18, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	17 min
Jun 18, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	22 min
Jun 18, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Motley	20 min
Jun 18, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Motley	17 min
Jun 18, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hockley	16 min
Jun 18, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hall, Motley	15 min
Jun 19, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran	42 min
Jun 19, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	52 min
Jun 19, 4:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Parmer	92 min
Jun 19, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran	52 min
Jun 19, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Parmer	45 min
Jun 19, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	44 min
Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Parmer	90 min
Jun 19, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	44 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.