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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2020, 5:07 PM CDT for Childress County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 7, 2020, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2020, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Childress County, TX, Hall County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 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 7, 2:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 1:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 150 PM CDT Thu May 7 2020 TXZ021>044-081900- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 150 PM CDT Thu May 7 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. A dryline will push eastward to near the Caprock Escarpment by late afternoon. The highest risk of severe thunderstorms late this afternoon and evening should be across Childress and Cottle counties though areas further south toward Aspermont cannot be completely ruled out. If thunderstorms develop, they may produce hail to 3 inches in diameter and wind gusts to 70 mph. To the west of the dryline, hot, dry and windy conditions will develop. A Red Flag Warning is in effect for areas generally west of a Whiteface to Olton to Nazareth line from 3 PM to 9 PM. A strong cold front will move through the South Plains area tonight with the potential for sustained wind speeds in excess of 30 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Sustained wind speeds in excess of 30 mph may linger into Friday morning and gradually ease into afternoon hours. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. Please relay any information about severe weather to the NWS while following local, state, and CDC guidelines.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:01 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Lamb, Parmer | 18 hr |
| May 7, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 54 min |
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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.