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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

January 24, 2021Hale County, Lubbock County, Terry County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jan 24, 2021, 9:04 PM CST for Hale County, Lubbock County, Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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, 9:04 PM CST (03:04 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 2021, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Hale County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Terry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

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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: 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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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 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 7:17 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 24, 3:32 PM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes 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, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 24, 8:33 PM CST, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 24, 8:50 PM CST, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 24, 9:04 PM CST, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
904 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021

TXZ028>030-034-035-040-041-250345-
Floyd TX-Terry TX-Hockley TX-Lamb TX-Lynn TX-Lubbock TX-Hale TX-
904 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

At 903 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 5 miles north of Halfway to 4 miles southwest
of Slide. Movement was northeast at 45 mph.

Minor accumulations of pea size hail will be possible in addition to
brief heavy rainfall.

Locations impacted include...
Lubbock, Plainview, Brownfield, Abernathy, Hale Center, Wolfforth,
Shallowater, Anton, Cotton Center, Spade, Lubbock South Plains Mall,
Locketville, Halfway, Slide, Woodrow, Reese Center, Lubbock
International Airport, Texas Tech University, Downtown Lubbock and
Seth Ward.

LAT...LON 3431 10147 3315 10190 3314 10242 3431 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 0303Z 226DEG 38KT 3426 10196 3335 10197

SINCAVAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 8:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lamb	23 min
Jan 24, 8:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	27 min
Jan 24, 8:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Terry	10 min
Jan 24, 9:11 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	2 hr
Jan 24, 9:35 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	40 min
Jan 24, 10:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	21 min
Jan 24, 10:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Motley	27 min
Jan 24, 10:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Dickens	21 min
Jan 24, 10:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Stonewall	26 min
Jan 24, 11:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lynn	44 min
Jan 24, 11:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Stonewall	13 min
Jan 24, 11:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Crosby, Garza	39 min
Jan 25, 12:46 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LUB	King	44 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.