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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 5, 20194 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2019, 8:27 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 5, 2019, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2019, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Hall County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 300 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2019-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1230 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2019-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
1230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDTDust Storm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, Motley31 min
Jun 5, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley54 min
Jun 5, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, Lubbock, Lynn67 min
Jun 5, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent, King, Stonewall63 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.