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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2016, 3:20 PM CDT for Childress County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- Aug 25, 2016, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Childress County, TX, Hall County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Aug 25, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 11:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1134 AM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 TXZ021>044-261645- 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 THU AUG 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL BRING A RISK FOR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RESULTING IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. IN ADDITION...A FEW STORMS ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND WING GUSTS TO 65 MPH. THIS THREAT WILL BE MAINLY ALONG AND TO THE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 70. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 91 min |
| Aug 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 31 min |
| Aug 25, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 114 min |
| Aug 25, 6:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Bailey | 113 min |
| Aug 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cochran | 2 hr |
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.