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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 17, 2020King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 17, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 2020, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County King County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 17, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 17, 12:41 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 12:41 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 11:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 17, 8:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
857 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0855 AM     HAIL             5 W LEVELLAND           33.58N 102.45W
03/17/2020  M1.00 INCH       HOCKLEY            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SPOTTER CONFIRMED 1" HAIL

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2000149

HWS

Local storm report, Mar 17, 9:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
939 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0913 AM     HAIL             SMYER                   33.59N 102.16W
03/17/2020  E1.00 INCH       HOCKLEY            TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2000150

WCI

Local storm report, Mar 17, 9:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
949 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0948 AM     HAIL             7 W LUBBOCK             33.58N 102.00W
03/17/2020  M0.75 INCH       LUBBOCK            TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2000151

WCI

Local storm report, Mar 17, 9:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
953 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0945 AM     HAIL             1 NE DOUD               33.56N 101.92W
03/17/2020  M1.00 INCH       LUBBOCK            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            OCCURRED AT MSF AND SLIDE

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2000152

WCI

Local storm report, Mar 17, 10:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1007 AM CDT TUE MAR 17 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0947 AM     HAIL             3 ESE LUBBOCK SOUTH PLA 33.52N 101.87W
03/17/2020  M0.75 INCH       LUBBOCK            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            OCCURRED NEAR 77TH AND UNIVERSITY

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2000153

WCI

Local storm report, Mar 17, 10:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 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 16, 11:43 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 14 more	11 hr
Mar 17, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Yoakum	67 min
Mar 17, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	46 min
Mar 17, 8:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	113 min
Mar 17, 9:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley	2 hr
Mar 17, 9:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lubbock	66 min
Mar 17, 9:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	3 hr
Mar 17, 10:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Lubbock	57 min
Mar 17, 10:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Hale	2 hr
Mar 17, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	26 min
Mar 17, 11:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	38 min
Mar 17, 11:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Briscoe	113 min
Mar 17, 11:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2020 Every 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.