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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 11, 2019Dickens County, Kent County, Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2019, 7:31 PM CDT for Dickens County, Kent County, Stonewall 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: Mar 11, 2019, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2019, 8:04 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Dickens County, TX, Kent County, TX, Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Mar 11, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 11, 2:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 11, 7:15 PM CDT, 16 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
Mar 11, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Kent	45 min
Mar 11, 9:39 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	19 hr
Mar 12, 2:43 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	31 hr
Mar 12, 5:05 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 14 more	6 hr

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.