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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 22, 2016Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2016, 4:13 AM CDT for Lynn 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2016, 4:13 AM CDT (09:13 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2016, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

County Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:13 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1218 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 22, 3:43 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:43 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 10:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 1:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 2:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 2:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 3:14 AM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 4:13 AM CDT, 0 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
May 21, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	45 min
May 22, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Bailey, Parmer	14 min
May 22, 2:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Castro	11 min
May 22, 2:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Terry	29 min
May 22, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hockley	31 min
May 22, 4:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	32 min
May 22, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Crosby	32 min
May 22, 5:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Crosby	33 min
May 22, 6:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Dickens	33 min
May 22, 6:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Dickens	31 min
May 22, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Briscoe	21 min
May 22, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	37 min
May 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Lynn	62 min
May 22, 4:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hall	2 hr
May 22, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	47 min
May 22, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn	44 min
May 22, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	22 min
May 22, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hall	34 min
May 22, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	33 min
May 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Kent	62 min
May 22, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Lubbock	60 min
May 22, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	38 min
May 22, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hall	37 min
May 22, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, Motley	41 min
May 22, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	63 min
May 22, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LUB	Childress, Hall	32 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.