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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 19, 2020Bailey County, Lamb County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT for Bailey County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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
Jun 19, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2020, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Bailey County, TX, Lamb County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 19, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 2020-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 544 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 2020-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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 Jun 19, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
320 PM CDT Fri Jun 19 2020

TXZ021>044-202030-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-
Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-
Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
320 PM CDT Fri Jun 19 2020

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling
Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Thunderstorms are expected across the South Plains, Rolling
Plains, and extreme southern Panhandle through the rest of the
afternoon and evening hours.

Some of these thunderstorms will likely become severe. Large hail
to 1.5" in diameter and damaging winds up to 80 mph will be the
primary threats. Storms will also have the potential to produce
heavy rainfall and localized flooding where recent heavy rains
have occurred.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb40 min
Jun 19, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb43 min
Jun 19, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock39 min
Jun 19, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Hockley, Lubbock34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.