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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 5, 2019Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2019, 9:09 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
Apr 5, 2019, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 2019, 9:34 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 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 office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn39 min
Apr 5, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent64 min
Apr 5, 9:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLubbock100 min
Apr 5, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza44 min
Apr 5, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent59 min
Apr 5, 10:17 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBGarza, Kent118 min
Apr 5, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent53 min
Apr 5, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent, King63 min
Apr 6, 12:04 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLUBGarza, Kent116 min
Apr 6, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent, King, Stonewall52 min
Apr 6, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall44 min
Apr 6, 3:37 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBGarza, Kent113 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.