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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 2, 2020Cottle County, Hall County, Motley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2020, 5:32 PM CDT for Cottle County, Hall County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
Aug 2, 2020, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2020, 6:04 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Cottle County, TX, Hall County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 2020-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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 2020-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 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 Aug 1, 6:16 PM CDT, 23 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 6:16 PM CDT, 23 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 3:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe22 min
Aug 2, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Motley64 min
Aug 2, 4:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock23 min
Aug 2, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Childress, Hall59 min
Aug 2, 5:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock27 min
Aug 2, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock45 min
Aug 2, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent58 min
Aug 2, 6:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBKing28 min
Aug 2, 6:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock25 min
Aug 2, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent23 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.