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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2017, 12:25 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 7, 2017, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, King County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
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 Oct 7, 12:25 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 12:25 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...CORRECTED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 702 AM CDT Fri Oct 6 2017 TXZ021>044-070900- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 702 AM CDT Fri Oct 6 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains...Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight There is a slight risk of severe thunderstorms this evening generally north and west of a Morton to Lubbock to Childress line. A cold front will move through the South Plains area this evening. As this front moves into rich low level moisture scattered to numerous thunderstorms are expected to develop along it and move mainly in an east and southeast direction with the front. The amount of instability associated with the moist air mass in concert with favorable winds aloft will create an environment for some of the storms to become severe with hail to the size of golfballs and wind gusts to 70 mph possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be requested this evening.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 9:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Lubbock TX 930 PM CDT FRI OCT 6 2017 TXZ022-023-028-029-070300- Swisher TX-Castro TX-Lamb TX-Hale TX- 930 PM CDT FRI OCT 6 2017 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN CASTRO...NORTHWESTERN HALE...SOUTHWESTERN SWISHER AND NORTHEASTERN LAMB COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... At 929 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Earth, moving east at 55 mph. Dime size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Plainview, Olton, Hart, Earth, Halfway, Edmonson and Springlake. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. && A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for the Panhandle of and northwestern Texas. LAT...LON 3407 10245 3439 10244 3450 10181 3415 10172 TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 252DEG 47KT 3421 10232 JGD
Local storm report, Oct 6, 10:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1006 PM CDT FRI OCT 06 2017
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1005 PM TSTM WND GST 2 ENE TULIA 34.54N 101.74W
10/06/2017 M67 MPH SWISHER TX MESONET
WEST TEXAS MESONET REPORT.
&&
EVENT NUMBER LUB1700351
JWJSpecial weather statement, Oct 6, 11:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 6, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer | 36 min |
| Oct 6, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 31 min |
| Oct 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Castro | 30 min |
| Oct 6, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 24 min |
| Oct 6, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Hall, Motley, Swisher | 34 min |
| Oct 6, 10:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 2 hr |
| Oct 6, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hale, Hall and 1 more | 31 min |
| Oct 6, 11:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 35 min |
| Oct 6, 11:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress, Hall | 33 min |
| Oct 6, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 33 min |
| Oct 7, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 33 min |
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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.