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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2019, 4:09 PM CDT for Terry County, Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 23, 2019, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2019, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 23, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 1941 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
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 23, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 12:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1246 PM CDT Thu May 23 2019 TXZ021>044-240600- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1246 PM CDT Thu May 23 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Strong to severe storms are possible late this afternoon and evening as a dryline positions itself along the US Highway 385 corridor. Hail up to the size of baseballs, strong wind gusts up to 70 mph and tornadoes will be possible with the strongest thunderstorm activity. A Flood Watch has been issued starting this afternoon through early Friday morning due to the possibility of heavy rainfall from training storms leading to localized flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Daily chances for severe storms are expected Friday through Sunday as an active pattern continues across much of the region. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 12:40 PM CDT | Flood Watch | LUB | Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more | 15 hr |
| May 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 45 min |
| May 23, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 40 min |
| May 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 2 hr |
| May 23, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 63 min |
| May 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 46 min |
| May 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 27 min |
| May 23, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 21 min |
| May 23, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 41 min |
| May 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 46 min |
| May 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 119 min |
| May 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 37 min |
| May 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 36 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.