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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2015, 8:31 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 44 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 29, 2015, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2015, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Castro County, TX, Hale County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 29, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 29, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 11:32 AM CDT, 8 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1132 AM CDT FRI MAY 29 2015 TXZ021>044-301645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1132 AM CDT FRI MAY 29 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING BRINGING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 70 MPH. TONIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY...A COLD FRONT WILL BRING WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. LOCAL RAIN TOTALS GREATER THAN THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM SATURDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Parmer | 29 min |
| May 29, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb | 31 min |
| May 29, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Hale, Lamb | 27 min |
| May 29, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Terry, Yoakum | 48 min |
| May 29, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Floyd, Hale, Lamb and 1 more | 47 min |
| May 29, 9:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 28 min |
| May 29, 10:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Swisher | 37 min |
| May 29, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, Yoakum | 34 min |
| May 29, 10:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 3 hr |
| May 29, 10:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 2 hr |
| May 29, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe | 30 min |
| May 29, 11:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza, Kent, Lynn | 23 min |
| May 29, 11:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent | 31 min |
| May 30, 12:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Stonewall | 22 min |
| May 30, 1:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Stonewall | 27 min |
| May 30, 1:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Stonewall | 31 min |
| May 30, 1:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Lubbock, Motley | 50 min |
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.