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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2016, 6:40 PM CDT for Castro County, Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 13, 2016, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Castro County, TX, Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 11:34 AM CDT, 7 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1134 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2016 TXZ021>044-141645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1134 AM CDT MON JUN 13 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 THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY THAT WAS STRETCHED ACROSS THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE MAIN THREATS DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH AND UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WIDESRPEAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. JORDAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 35 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.