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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 24, 2019Hale County, Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2019, 7:56 PM CDT for Hale County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 24, 2019, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2019, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hale County, TX, Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 24, 1:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 433 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1815 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 9.1

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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 24, 7:42 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 7:42 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 11:43 AM CDT, 8 hours 13 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1143 AM CDT Fri May 24 2019

TXZ021>044-250445-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-
Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-
Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1143 AM CDT Fri May 24 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 this afternoon and evening
as a dryline positions itself along the US Highway 385 corridor.
Expect hail up to the size of tennis balls, strong wind gusts up
to 70 mph, and locally heavy rainfall that could result in
localized flooding with the strongest thunderstorm activity.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

Daily chances for severe storms are expected Saturday through
Monday as an active pattern continues across much of the region.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be requested this afternoon through tonight
for much of the South Plains and Rolling Plains.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 5:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 5:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 5:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 5:56 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 7:14 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 7:31 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	31 min
May 24, 7:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lubbock	2 hr
May 24, 7:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LUB	Crosby	4 hr
May 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	115 min
May 24, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	54 min
May 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	114 min
May 24, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb	63 min
May 24, 9:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall	115 min
May 24, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	43 min
May 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	60 min
May 24, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale	38 min
May 25, 12:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran	53 min
May 25, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	63 min
May 25, 1:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	2 hr
May 25, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	55 min
May 25, 2:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	27 min
May 25, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	49 min
May 25, 2:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hale, Lamb, Swisher	2 hr
May 25, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Parmer	20 min
May 25, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher	56 min
May 25, 3:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	58 min
May 25, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Swisher	65 min
May 25, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	55 min
May 25, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	17 min
May 25, 4:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 2 more	117 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	66 min
May 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Swisher	62 min
May 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	43 min
May 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Floyd, Hale, Swisher	40 min
May 25, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Swisher	54 min
May 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Yoakum	49 min
May 25, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher	47 min
May 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Swisher	117 min
May 25, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Motley, Swisher	56 min
May 25, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	61 min
May 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	29 min
May 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Briscoe	28 min
May 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Hale	16 min
May 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Hall, Motley, Swisher	2 hr
May 25, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	26 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro	30 min
May 25, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Childress, Hall	67 min
May 25, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher	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.