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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 19, 2014Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 19, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 19, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 291 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 19, 6:18 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:18 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
618 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2014

.AVIATION...
MODERATE-TO-HIGH CONFIDENCE THAT SCT TSRA CURRENTLY WEST OF LBB
WILL EXPAND INTO A LINEAR COMPLEX THRU THE EVENING...SO WILL
BOLSTER A TEMPO GROUP FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS AND +TSRA THRU 04Z AT
LBB...AND A FEW HOURS LATER AT CDS. SOME ISO SHRA/TSRA ALREADY
NEAR BOTH TERMINALS SHOULDN/T AMOUNT TO MUCH IMPACT IN THE NEAR
TERM. TSRA SHOULD CLEAR OUT FROM WEST TO EAST BY MIDNIGHT OR
LATER.

A FEW LOW CLOUDS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE AT THE STATIONS EARLY FRI
MORNING WITH A WINDOW FOR MVFR CIGS...BUT NOT ENUF CONFIDENCE ATTM
FOR A PREDOMINANT LINE IN THE TAFS. OUTSIDE OF TSRA...STEADY S-SELY
WINDS WILL PREVAIL THRU THE PERIOD.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
FRIONA        62  87  62  89  64 /  40  10  10  10  10
TULIA         64  89  63  88  65 /  50  10  10  10  10
PLAINVIEW     65  89  64  87  66 /  50  10  10  10  10
LEVELLAND     66  88  65  87  66 /  40  10  10  10  10
LUBBOCK       66  89  66  88  68 /  40  10  10  10  10
DENVER CITY   66  86  65  87  66 /  40  10  10  10  10
BROWNFIELD    67  87  65  87  66 /  40  10  10  10  10
CHILDRESS     69  94  67  94  70 /  30  10  10  10  10
SPUR          68  91  68  89  69 /  30  10  10  10  10
ASPERMONT     70  92  69  93  71 /  20  10  10  10  10

&&

.LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

93
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 12:02 PM CDT, 6 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1202 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2014

TXZ021>044-201715-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1202 PM CDT THU JUN 19 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 THIS AFTERNOON...
MAINLY TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM TAHOKA TO PADUCAH.
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS...LARGE HAIL TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:26 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
626 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     HAIL             BOVINA                  34.52N 102.89W
06/19/2014  E1.00 INCH       PARMER             TX   SKYWARN SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1400225

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:11 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCastro, Hockley, Lamb, Swisher109 min
Jun 19, 7:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress31 min
Jun 19, 7:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHale, Hockley, Lamb, Swisher42 min
Jun 19, 8:05 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBHale, Lubbock115 min
Jun 19, 8:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe, Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock45 min
Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe30 min
Jun 19, 9:36 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBriscoe114 min
Jun 19, 10:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher46 min
Jun 19, 10:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent30 min
Jun 20, 12:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe, Floyd50 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.