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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2015, 2:08 PM CDT for Cottle County, Texas. It was in force for 22 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 13, 2015, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2015, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Cottle County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 13, 1:11 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:11 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 11:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1138 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 TXZ021>044-141645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1138 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT BY LATE AFTERNOON...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NEAR THE NEW MEXICO STATE LINE BEFORE OVERSPREADING THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND STRAIGHT LINE WINDS NEAR 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:52 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
152 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015
TXZ025-026-031-032-038-131930-
CHILDRESS TX-KING TX-COTTLE TX-HALL TX-MOTLEY TX-
152 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN KING...NORTHERN
MOTLEY...HALL...COTTLE AND CHILDRESS COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM CDT...
AT 151 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR FLOMOT TO 12 MILES
WEST OF TRUSCOTT...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHILDRESS...MEMPHIS...PADUCAH...NORTHFIELD...CEE VEE...KIRKLAND...
GROW...CHALK...SWEARINGEN...TELL...FLOMOT...DELWIN...TURKEY...
ESTELLINE...LAKEVIEW AND PLASKA COMMUNITY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE SLOW-MOVING
STORMS...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3450 10000 3423 10000 3424 10001 3423 10005
3384 10005 3383 10000 3360 9999 3421 10104
3429 10104 3431 10102 3431 10095 3445 10095
3475 10076 3475 10062
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 197DEG 12KT 3426 10099 3370 10002The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 14 min |
| Jun 12, 7:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 117 min |
| Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Childress | 91 min |
| Jun 12, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 32 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.