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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2015, 5:48 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 42 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 14, 2015, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2015, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 14, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 14, 2:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 11:47 AM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1147 AM CDT THU MAY 14 2015 TXZ021>044-151700- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1147 AM CDT THU MAY 14 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHERN ROLLING PLAINS. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS COULD PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS UP TO 80 MPH. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY FOR AREAS ON THE CAPROCK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL THREATEN MUCH OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY EVENING...AND THEN AGAIN ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON MAINLY IN THE ROLLING PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS EXPECTED LATER TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 49 min |
| May 14, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 44 min |
| May 14, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 48 min |
| May 14, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer | 49 min |
| May 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015
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.