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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2015, 11:31 PM CDT for Bailey County, Cochran County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 15, 2015, 11:31 PM CDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2015, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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 15, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 May 15, 6:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 6:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 10:58 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1058 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2015 TXZ021>044-170400- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1058 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNRISE SATURDAY NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AREA THROUGH SUNRISE SATURDAY MORNING. FAVORABLE WINDS ALOFT WILL RESULT IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAIN MAY LEAD TO SOME FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY COULD BECOME SEVERE AND BRING A RISK OF HEAVY RAINFALL. SOUTHWEST WINDS ON THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST PANHANDLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON WILL LIKELY BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO REQUIRE A WIND ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:13 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more | 17 hr |
| May 16, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 22 min |
| May 16, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 30 min |
| May 16, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 17 min |
| May 16, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 20 min |
| May 16, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Hall, Motley | 30 min |
| May 16, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 35 min |
| May 16, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall | 30 min |
| May 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.