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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2015, 8:07 PM CST for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
- Nov 16, 2015, 8:07 PM CST (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2015, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 345 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 Nov 16, 5:36 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 5:36 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 16, 4:50 PM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 450 PM CST MON NOV 16 2015 TXZ021>044-172300- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 450 PM CST MON NOV 16 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS EARLY THIS EVENING AS LIFT FROM A STRONG STORM SYSTEM INCREASES ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BECOME SEVERE ONCE THEY CROSS THE DRYLINE...WHICH AT 445 PM EXTENDED FROM AN OLTON TO LEVELLAND LINE. EAST OF THE DRYLINE AND NORTH OF TEXAS HIGHWAY 114 THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER. ISOLATED TORNADOES...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE. AS THE STORMS BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE INTO A LINE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BECOME THE PRIMARY THREAT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AREA UNTIL 9 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TUESDAY. A WIND ADVISORY WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Nov 16, 7:24 PM CST, 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 7:09 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 66 min |
| Nov 16, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 29 min |
| Nov 16, 7:24 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 66 min |
| Nov 16, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 15 min |
| Nov 16, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 41 min |
| Nov 17, 4:15 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 16 more | 14 hr |
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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.