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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2021, 6:42 PM CDT for Bailey County, Lamb 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2021, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2021, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1081 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted.
693
WUUS54 KLUB 262342
SVRLUB
TXC017-279-270015-
/O.NEW.KLUB.SV.W.0149.210526T2342Z-210527T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
642 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Bailey County in northwestern Texas...
Central Lamb County in northwestern Texas...
* Until 715 PM CDT.
* At 642 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Muleshoe
Wildlife Refuge, or 15 miles north of Morton, moving northeast at
30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Earth, Sudan, Amherst, Needmore, Fieldton, Muleshoe Wildlife
Refuge, Bula, Enochs and Springlake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for northwestern
Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3399 10285 3431 10225 3431 10224 3407 10209
3383 10274
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 240DEG 25KT 3395 10272
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
PAZOS1 follow-up statement
050
WWUS54 KLUB 262353
SVSLUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
653 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021
TXC017-279-270015-
/O.CON.KLUB.SV.W.0149.000000T0000Z-210527T0015Z/
Bailey TX-Lamb TX-
653 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL BAILEY AND CENTRAL LAMB COUNTIES...
At 652 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles north of
Bula, or 17 miles south of Muleshoe, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Earth, Sudan, Amherst, Fieldton and Springlake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for northwestern
Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3431 10225 3431 10224 3407 10209 3389 10258
3405 10274
TIME...MOT...LOC 2352Z 240DEG 25KT 3399 10264
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
PAZOSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 57 min |
| May 25, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 58 min |
| May 25, 8:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Kent | 59 min |
| May 25, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 61 min |
| May 25, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent | 40 min |
| May 25, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 20 min |
| May 25, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 36 min |
| May 25, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 63 min |
| May 25, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | King | 29 min |
| May 25, 10:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Motley | 27 min |
| May 25, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle | 57 min |
| May 25, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 32 min |
| May 26, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb, Swisher | 64 min |
| May 26, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Castro, Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 58 min |
| May 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 86 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.