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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

January 24, 2021Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jan 24, 2021, 8:33 PM CST for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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
Jan 24, 2021, 8:33 PM CST (02:33 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 2021, 9:00 PM CST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2021-01-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2021-01-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 271 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
101 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 24, 7:17 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 7:17 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 24, 3:32 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
332 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021

TXZ021>044-252145-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
332 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling
Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

A broken line of showers and thunderstorms is expected to develop
over the central South Plains early this evening and sweep eastward
across the Rolling Plains and southeast Texas Panhandle through the
late evening hours. The strongest storms will be capable of producing
small hail, brief heavy rainfall and wind gusts to 50 mph as they
race eastward.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Locally elevated Fire Weather may develop on the Caprock both Monday
and Tuesday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 24, 8:07 PM CST, 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jan 24, 8:33 PM CST, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 8:07 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLamb23 min
Jan 24, 8:50 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBTerry10 min
Jan 24, 9:04 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHale, Lubbock, Terry41 min
Jan 24, 9:11 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLubbock2 hr
Jan 24, 9:35 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock40 min
Jan 24, 10:09 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock21 min
Jan 24, 10:18 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBMotley27 min
Jan 24, 10:24 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBDickens21 min
Jan 24, 10:34 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBStonewall26 min
Jan 24, 11:01 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLynn44 min
Jan 24, 11:02 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBStonewall13 min
Jan 24, 11:36 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby, Garza39 min
Jan 25, 12:46 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLUBKing44 min

Nearby

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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.