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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2019, 4:14 PM CDT for Bailey County, 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
- May 3, 2019, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2019, 5:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Bailey County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 3, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 3, 2:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1052 AM CDT Fri May 3 2019 TXZ021>044-040400- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1052 AM CDT Fri May 3 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible later today from the western South Plains spreading into the central South Plains. Hail to one inch diameter and wind gusts to 60 mph will be primary threats from thunderstorms later today. Some of the slower moving storms may produce locally heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday A few severe thunderstorms are possible late Friday night and late Saturday night. Additional bouts of severe storms may occur each day Sunday through through Thursday as an active weather pattern becomes entrenched over the region. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be requested.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 3, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:23 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 97 min |
| May 3, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 54 min |
| May 3, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 43 min |
| May 3, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 49 min |
| May 3, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley | 37 min |
| May 3, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 54 min |
| May 3, 4:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Bailey | 2 hr |
| May 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Terry | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum | 60 min |
| May 3, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 38 min |
| May 3, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 36 min |
| May 3, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Crosby | 35 min |
| May 3, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 33 min |
| May 3, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 37 min |
| May 3, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 34 min |
| May 3, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Terry | 29 min |
| May 3, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent | 24 min |
| May 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 37 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.