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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 11, 20164 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 11, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2016, 9:26 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hockley County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 1261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 11:17 AM CDT, 9 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1117 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016

TXZ021>044-121630-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1117 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS
THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW...THOUGH A
FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD ROAM THE AREA SUNDAY AND PERHAPS
MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 4:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
442 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0404 PM     HAIL             5 NW DOUGHERTY          33.99N 101.15W
06/11/2016  E0.50 INCH       FLOYD              TX   PUBLIC

            LOT OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL
            RAINFALL. STRONG OUTTFLOW WINDS ALSO OBSERVED.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1600227

GDS

Local storm report, Jun 11, 4:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
444 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0328 PM     HAIL             DICKENS                 33.62N 100.84W
06/11/2016  E0.25 INCH       DICKENS            TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            PEA SIZE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OBSERVED.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1600228

GDS

Local storm report, Jun 11, 6:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
634 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0610 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 ENE MORTON            33.73N 102.74W
06/11/2016  M64 MPH          COCHRAN            TX   MESONET

            MEASURED BY THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY WEST TEXAS
            MESONET

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1600229

JDV

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
742 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0741 PM     TSTM WND GST     LITTLEFIELD             33.92N 102.33W
06/11/2016  M75 MPH          LAMB               TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1600230

MCQUEEN

Local storm report, Jun 11, 8:04 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 8:22 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb, Lubbock	31 min
Jun 11, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	50 min
Jun 11, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.