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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 14, 2017Crosby County, Floyd County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2017, 7:36 PM CDT for Crosby County, Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
May 14, 2017, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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, 0.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2017-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 267 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 2017-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3218 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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 May 14, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 11:31 AM CDT, 8 hours 5 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1131 AM CDT Sun May 14 2017

TXZ021>044-151645-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-
Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-
Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1131 AM CDT Sun May 14 2017

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains...Rolling
Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight
Isolated severe thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon into
tonight across the entire outlook area. Locations north and east
of a line from Dimmitt, to Brownfield, to Paducah will have
higher chances of experiencing severe weather. The main threat
will be damaging winds with speeds up to 70 mph but hail up to
half dollar ball size is also possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday
Severe thunderstorms will again be possible across all but the
western-most portions of the outlook area Monday afternoon and
evening, then across the eastern South Plains and Rolling Plains
Tuesday and Tuesday night. Additional storms may be possible
Friday through the upcoming weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be requested this afternoon and evening.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 7:30 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 9:57 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCrosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2017Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2017

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.