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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 3, 2017Swisher County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2017, 3:12 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 3, 2017, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2017, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

County Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 3, 12:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 12:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 11:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1126 AM CDT Sat Jun 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-
1126 AM CDT Sat Jun 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

Localized heavy rain and minor flooding are expected today from
slow moving thunderstorms.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:12 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
312 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2017

TXZ023-024-032045-
Briscoe TX-Swisher TX-
312 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SWISHER AND SOUTHWESTERN BRISCOE
COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CDT...

At 310 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Mackenzie Reservoir, or 13 miles northwest of Silverton, moving
south at 15 mph. Another strong storm was located 10 miles north-
northeast of Tulia, also moving south at 15 mph.

Half inch hail, wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and brief heavy rain will
be possible with these storms. The West Texas Mesonet in Vigo Park
recorded a wind gust to 56 mph at 2:39 pm.

Locations impacted include...
Tulia, Kress, Mackenzie Reservoir and Claytonville.

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.

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LAT...LON 3463 10132 3431 10138 3432 10180 3443 10193
      3475 10180 3475 10169
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 011DEG 12KT 3455 10151

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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 3, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Swisher	29 min
Jun 3, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Yoakum	24 min
Jun 3, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Castro	36 min
Jun 3, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	24 min
Jun 3, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Terry	29 min
Jun 3, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	33 min
Jun 3, 5:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	61 min
Jun 3, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lamb	27 min
Jun 3, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lynn, Terry	28 min

Nearby

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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.