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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 3, 2019Castro County, Parmer County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2019, 6:12 PM CDT for Castro County, Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2019, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Castro County, TX, Parmer County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 288 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: 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

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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 3, 2:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 10:52 AM CDT, 7 hours 20 minutes before

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 hour 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 4:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 5:14 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 5:39 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 6:10 PM CDT, 2 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 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, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey	48 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, 6:23 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2019 Every 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.