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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 30, 20194 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2019, 8:25 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 50 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 30, 2019, 8:25 AM CDT (13:25 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2019, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Castro County, TX, Hale County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 12:00Z on 2019-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 12:00Z on 2019-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 Apr 30, 6:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 6:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 30, 8:12 AM CDT, 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 8:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHale33 min
Apr 30, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza26 min
Apr 30, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb39 min
Apr 30, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent32 min
Apr 30, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza25 min
Apr 30, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb48 min
Apr 30, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent, Stonewall46 min
Apr 30, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale51 min
Apr 30, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall50 min
Apr 30, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale47 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.