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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2021, 5:53 PM CDT for Childress County, Cottle County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 16, 2021, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2021, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Hall County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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 16, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
946
WUUS54 KLUB 162253
SVRLUB
TXC075-101-191-162345-
/O.NEW.KLUB.SV.W.0065.210516T2253Z-210516T2345Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
553 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Childress County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northwestern Cottle County in northwestern Texas...
Southeastern Hall County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 645 PM CDT.
* At 553 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles northwest
of Tell, or 11 miles west of Childress, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Childress, Tell and Cee Vee.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3442 10056 3453 10044 3438 10010 3416 10043
TIME...MOT...LOC 2253Z 307DEG 14KT 3444 10045
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
551 follow-up statement
106
WWUS54 KLUB 162330
SVSLUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
630 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
TXC075-101-191-162345-
/O.CON.KLUB.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-210516T2345Z/
Childress TX-Cottle TX-Hall TX-
630 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN CHILDRESS...NORTH CENTRAL COTTLE AND SOUTHEASTERN
HALL COUNTIES...
At 630 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles east of
Tell, or 6 miles southwest of Childress, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Childress and Tell.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3442 10056 3453 10044 3438 10010 3424 10031
3431 10050
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 307DEG 14KT 3435 10031
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
55The 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, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.