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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2016, 6:13 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 15, 2016, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County King County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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 Sep 15, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 15, 5:11 AM CDT, 13 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 511 AM CDT THU SEP 15 2016 TXZ021>044-161015- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 511 AM CDT THU SEP 15 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS...ROLLING PLAINS AND THE FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES COULD PRODUCE FLOODING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY TURN SEVERE WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A RISK FOR MINOR FLOODING WILL PERSIST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. ADDITIONALLY, SUFFICIENT WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY COULD SUPPORT A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 15, 5:51 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 551 PM CDT THU SEP 15 2016 TXZ044-152315- STONEWALL TX- 551 PM CDT THU SEP 15 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN STONEWALL COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 551 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF PEACOCK...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASPERMONT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ASPERMONT AND SWENSON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3314 10051 3328 10013 3296 10010 3296 10052 TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 251DEG 23KT 3307 10041 SC
Special weather statement, Sep 15, 6:05 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 605 PM CDT THU SEP 15 2016 TXZ043-152330- KENT TX- 605 PM CDT THU SEP 15 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN KENT COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT... AT 604 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF LAKE ALAN HENRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN KENT COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3297 10102 3310 10100 3330 10052 3296 10052 TIME...MOT...LOC 2304Z 244DEG 16KT 3303 10087 SC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 9:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Parmer | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Stonewall | 24 min |
| Sep 15, 6:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent | 25 min |
| Sep 15, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent | 24 min |
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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.