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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 1, 2015Lubbock County, Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2015, 8:06 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 2015, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2015, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 7:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Terry	21 min
Aug 2, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Childress	33 min
Aug 2, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hockley	34 min
Aug 2, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Terry	32 min
Aug 2, 6:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lamb	57 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.