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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2015, 12:52 PM CDT for King County, Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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
- Apr 26, 2015, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2015, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 Apr 26, 10:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 10:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 11:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1112 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2015 TXZ021>044-271615- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1112 AM CDT SUN APR 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING SUPERCELLS...ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE ROLLING PLAINS AND FAR SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE EAST OF A DRYLINE. VERY LARGE HAIL TO BASEBALL SIZE...DOWNBURST WINDS TO 70 MPH...A FEW TORNADOES...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS. THE GREATEST TORNADO THREAT APPEARS TO DEVELOP IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF A STATIONARY FRONT WHERE LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR IS GREATEST...ALTHOUGH MUCH DEEPER INSTABILITY IN THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS MAY ALSO FOSTER A TORNADO THREAT. FARTHER WEST ON THE CAPROCK...HIGH-BASED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE A FEW MICROBURSTS WITH LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE ON MONDAY IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE. FARTHER SOUTH...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN ROLLING PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 2:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 23 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 19 min |
| Apr 26, 3:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cottle, King | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Hall, Motley | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 6:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 3 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.