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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2018, 5:10 PM CDT for Hale County, Hockley County, Lubbock County, 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
- Aug 10, 2018, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2018, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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, 10.2 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 10, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 531 AM CDT Fri Aug 10 2018 TXZ021>044-102245- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 531 AM CDT Fri Aug 10 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Isolated to scattered thunderstorms may develop late this afternoon and continue through tonight. Locally heavy rainfall, gusty winds, and small hail will be possible with the most intense activity. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Additional rounds of showers and thunderstorms will be possible through the weekend and into early next week. Heavy rainfall will be the primary threat with this activity.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 10, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 31 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.