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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX

March 13, 2021Hall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2021, 6:16 PM CST for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 12 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: Mar 13, 2021, 6:16 PM CST (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2021, 6:28 PM CST
In force: 12 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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
Mar 13, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 307 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: 217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

082 
WUUS54 KLUB 140016
SVRLUB
TXC191-140045-
/O.NEW.KLUB.SV.W.0021.210314T0016Z-210314T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
616 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021

The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southern Hall County in the Panhandle of Texas...

* Until 645 PM CST.

* At 616 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast
  of Turkey, moving northeast at 45 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...
  Estelline and Plaska Community. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CST for the Panhandle
of and northwestern Texas.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3455 10041 3450 10042 3431 10067 3431 10087
      3432 10093 3465 10072
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 219DEG 40KT 3434 10078 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

SINCAVAGE

1 follow-up statement

727 
WWUS54 KLUB 140028
SVSLUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
628 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021

TXC191-140038-
/O.CAN.KLUB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-210314T0045Z/
Hall TX-
628 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN HALL COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However gusty winds and
heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CST for the Panhandle
of and northwestern Texas.

LAT...LON 3455 10041 3450 10042 3431 10067 3431 10087
      3432 10093 3465 10072
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 219DEG 40KT 3445 10067 

$$

SINCAVAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 6:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Kent	36 min
Mar 13, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley	47 min
Mar 13, 6:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Cottle, Motley	28 min
Mar 13, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle	49 min
Mar 14, 1:54 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 6 more	17 hr

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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.