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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2015, 3:35 PM CDT for Childress County, Cottle County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 16, 2015, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2015, 4:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Hall County, TX
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 16, 12:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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 16, 2:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1124 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015 TXZ021>044-171630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1124 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE AND WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS...WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO OR TWO. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE FAST MOVING AND WILL LIKELY BE EAST OF THE REGION BY EVENING. ADDITIONALLY...SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE WINDS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL POSE ADDITIONAL THREATS FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE. JW
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 16, 12:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Lamb | 44 min |
| 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, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.