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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 30, 2016Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2016, 5:13 PM CDT for Lubbock 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: Jun 30, 2016, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2016, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Swisher	35 min
Jun 30, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Swisher	25 min
Jun 30, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Swisher	28 min
Jun 30, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lynn	27 min
Jun 30, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Swisher	25 min
Jun 30, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Swisher	35 min
Jun 30, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Castro	26 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.