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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 28, 2016Hockley County, Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2016, 8:09 PM CDT for Hockley County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 28, 2016, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
36 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

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 396 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
396 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock30 min
Jun 28, 8:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock28 min
Jun 28, 9:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress47 min
Jun 29, 5:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher30 min
Jun 29, 6:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher23 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.