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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Lubbock, TX

September 28, 20194 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 2019, 6:29 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 31 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
Sep 28, 2019, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 28, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-09-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 177 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-09-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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 Sep 28, 6:04 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 6:04 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 28, 1:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHale34 min
Sep 28, 2:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCochran, Hockley, Lamb, Terry, Yoakum45 min
Sep 28, 2:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock32 min
Sep 28, 2:36 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBHockley, Lubbock4 hr
Sep 28, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb27 min
Sep 28, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum35 min
Sep 28, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Terry, Yoakum31 min
Sep 28, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer23 min
Sep 28, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Lamb14 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.