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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 16, 2021Childress County, Hall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2021, 4:55 PM CDT for Childress County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2021, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 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), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 16, 5:33 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Kirkland, TX
May 16, 5:50 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Kirkland, TX	SHERIFF REPORTS QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN TOWN.
May 16, 5:50 PM CDT	HAIL 1.57	Kirkland, TX	PING PONG SIZED HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR AND ADJACENT REPORTS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 16, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

385 
WUUS54 KLUB 162155
SVRLUB
TXC075-191-162300-
/O.NEW.KLUB.SV.W.0064.210516T2155Z-210516T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
455 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021

The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a

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

* Until 600 PM CDT.

* At 454 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles southwest
  of Memphis, moving east at 20 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...
  Childress, Memphis, Kirkland, Brice, Estelline, Lakeview and Plaska
  Community.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3439 10000 3436 10024 3446 10065 3456 10091
      3474 10094 3475 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 253DEG 16KT 3461 10066 

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Yoakum	56 min
May 15, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more	52 min
May 15, 7:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Cochran	109 min
May 15, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more	66 min
May 15, 8:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	113 min
May 15, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	24 min
May 15, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hale, Swisher	61 min
May 15, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Kent and 4 more	17 min
May 15, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hale	23 min
May 16, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall	52 min
May 16, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	31 min
May 16, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.