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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 9, 2019Crosby County, Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2019, 1:14 AM CDT for Crosby County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 9, 2019, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2019, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Crosby County, TX, Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 406 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 8, 6:47 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 6:47 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer34 min
May 8, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Parmer63 min
May 8, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Lamb, Parmer65 min
May 8, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Hale, Swisher38 min
May 8, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Swisher49 min
May 8, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb69 min
May 8, 11:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe49 min
May 9, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock69 min
May 9, 12:24 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLubbock111 min
May 9, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd52 min
May 9, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall36 min
May 9, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley67 min
May 9, 2:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBChildress23 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.