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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 24, 2017Hall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2017, 2:47 AM CDT for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
Jun 24, 2017, 2:47 AM CDT (07:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2017, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Hall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 320 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2017-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2017-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-360 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 23, 6:16 PM CDT, 8 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 6:16 PM CDT, 8 hours 31 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 4:52 AM CDT, 21 hours 55 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
452 AM CDT Fri Jun 23 2017

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Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-
Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-
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452 AM CDT Fri Jun 23 2017

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

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

A cold front will move into the South Plains area this morning and
move to near a Plains to Guthrie line by mid afternoon. Isolated
to scattered thunderstorms are expected to form along this front
after 2 PM. Hot temperatures will lead to these storms having high
bases which will lead to a threat for wind gusts to 65 mph. Some
hail to near the size of quarters may also be possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

There is a limited threat for localized flooding with
thunderstorms that affect the area this weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon across the
southern South Plains and southern Rolling Plains.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 1:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHall48 min
Jun 24, 1:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress49 min
Jun 24, 3:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Hall31 min

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.