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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 8, 2015Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2015, 9:03 AM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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 8, 2015, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2015, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 7, 6:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 6:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 42 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 10:59 AM CDT, 22 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1059 AM CDT THU MAY 7 2015

TXZ021>044-081600-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1059 AM CDT THU MAY 7 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE EXTREME
SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS THIS MORNING AND EARLY
AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. ADDITIONALLY...HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
ABLE TO PRODUCE MINOR FLOODING.

THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...ROLLING
PLAINS...AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS. THIS ACTIVITY WILL
BRING A RISK OF LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS...WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PERHAPS AN ISOLATED
TORNADO.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE
POSSIBLE AGAIN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS AN ACTIVE DRYLINE PERSISTS
IN THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 9:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Hockley, Lamb35 min
May 8, 10:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb34 min
May 8, 10:19 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBailey, Castro, Hale, Lamb, Parmer, Swisher3 hr
May 8, 10:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd29 min
May 8, 10:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale, Swisher46 min
May 8, 11:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley38 min
May 8, 11:27 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hale, Hall, Motley, Swisher3 hr
May 8, 11:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley47 min
May 8, 11:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall, Motley51 min
May 8, 12:46 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall, Motley3 hr
May 8, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress48 min
May 8, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock45 min
May 8, 2:02 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLubbock88 min
May 8, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock, Lynn48 min
May 8, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock41 min
May 8, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock50 min
May 8, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle26 min
May 8, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens42 min
May 8, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens, Kent35 min
May 8, 4:06 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLUBChildress15 hr
May 8, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent, King, Stonewall50 min
May 8, 4:17 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall, Motley3 hr
May 8, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing, Stonewall24 min
May 8, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing, Stonewall29 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.