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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2018, 6:57 PM CDT for Cottle County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 25, 2018, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2018, 7:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Cottle County, TX, King County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 25, 6:17 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:17 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 11:32 AM CDT, 7 hours 25 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1132 AM CDT Fri May 25 2018 TXZ021>044-260445- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1132 AM CDT Fri May 25 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon across the far southeast Texas Panhandle and the eastern South Plains, mainly to the east of the Interstate 27 and Highway 87 corridor. The storms will be capable of producing wind gusts to around 70 mph and hail up to ping pong ball size as they move through the Rolling Plains through the early evening hours. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be requested across the Rolling Plains this afternoon and early evening.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 63 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.