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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 28, 2015Bailey County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2015, 7:43 PM CDT for Bailey 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 28, 2015, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bailey County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 28, 12:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -400 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 28, 6:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 6:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 11:46 AM CDT, 7 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1146 AM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

TXZ021>044-291700-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1146 AM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SCATTERED STORMS WILL POSE A RISK
FOR VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS...DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS OF 70 MPH OR HIGHER...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH
FLOODING. LOCAL RAIN TOTALS GREATER THAN 3 INCHES WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE. CANNOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO IN THE SOUTHEAST
SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS AS WELL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING BEFORE A COLD FRONT BRINGS INCREASED CHANCES FOR
WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...AS WELL AS A
TRANSITION TO MORE OF A HEAVY RAIN THREAT INTO EARLY SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 3:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
339 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

TXZ038-044-282100-
KING TX-STONEWALL TX-
339 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN STONEWALL AND KING
COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 336 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A CLUSTER OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF GUTHRIE...TO 12 MILES
NORTHEAST OF JAYTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GUTHRIE...GROW AND HIGHWAYS 82 AND 83
TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF GUTHRIE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3326 10052 3343 10052 3384 10036 3384 10000
      3321 9999
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 277DEG 8KT 3350 10027

SC

Special weather statement, May 28, 4:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
435 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

TXZ042-282200-
GARZA TX-
435 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN GARZA COUNTY UNTIL
500 PM CDT...

AT 434 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR JUSTICEBURG...OR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF POST...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAKE ALAN HENRY AND JUSTICEBURG.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3315 10131 3327 10104 3297 10104 3296 10129
TIME...MOT...LOC 2134Z 222DEG 10KT 3298 10122

Local storm report, May 28, 5:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
506 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

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

0430 PM     FLOOD            5 E DUMONT              33.80N 100.43W
05/28/2015                   KING               TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

            MINOR FLOODING IN SEVERAL SPOTS ALONG FM 193 EAST OF
            DUMONT. TIME IS ESTIMATED.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1500263

GDS

Local storm report, May 28, 5:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
512 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

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

0505 PM     WALL CLOUD       7 NW PLAINS             33.26N 102.91W
05/28/2015                   YOAKUM             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LOCATION ESTIMATED

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1500264

GDS

Local storm report, May 28, 5:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
532 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

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

0527 PM     HAIL             SUNDOWN                 33.46N 102.49W
05/28/2015  E0.25 INCH       HOCKLEY            TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1500265

GDS

Local storm report, May 28, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 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 28, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	30 min
May 28, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	25 min
May 28, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Terry	27 min
May 28, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	26 min
May 29, 4:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LUB	Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 10 more	23 hr

Nearby

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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.