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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2017, 6:51 PM CDT for Hale County, Hockley County, Lamb 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
- Jul 3, 2017, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2017, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 821 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 Jul 3, 6:14 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 6:14 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1125 AM CDT Mon Jul 3 2017 TXZ021>044-041630- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1125 AM CDT Mon Jul 3 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains...Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Thunderstorms may once again develop this evening across the TX Panhandle and move southeast into parts of the South and Rolling Plains during the late afternoon into the overnight hours. A few storms could become marginally severe with wind gusts to 65 mph and quarter sized hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday Late evening and overnight thunderstorms are possible through mid-week, with a few storms potentially becoming severe. By Thursday, drier weather is expected to form across the region. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Limited spotter activation may be needed later this afternoon and tonight.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:13 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb, Parmer | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lamb | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 29 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.