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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jan 24, 2021, 10:24 PM CST for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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, 10:24 PM CST (04:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2021, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Dickens County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
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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, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 7:17 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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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, 8:50 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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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
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 9:35 PM CST, 49 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Lubbock TX 935 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021 TXZ029-030-035-036-250415- Floyd TX-Crosby TX-Lubbock TX-Hale TX- 935 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... At 934 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Downtown Lubbock, or 4 miles northeast of Lubbock, moving northeast at 45 mph. Minor accumulations of pea size hail will be possible. Locations impacted include... Lubbock, Idalou, Petersburg, Lorenzo, Lubbock International Airport, Cone, Downtown Lubbock, Texas Tech University and Buffalo Springs. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3349 10178 3363 10192 3398 10156 3380 10131 TIME...MOT...LOC 0334Z 224DEG 38KT 3360 10183 SINCAVAGE
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 10:09 PM CST, 15 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1009 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021 TXZ035-036-041-250430- Crosby TX-Lynn TX-Lubbock TX- 1009 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... At 1007 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5 miles south of Woodrow, or 11 miles southwest of Slaton, moving northeast at 60 mph. Pea size hail and brief heavy rainfall will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Southeast Lubbock, Slaton, Idalou, Ransom Canyon, Woodrow, Wilson, Buffalo Springs and New Home. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3324 10186 3334 10197 3373 10165 3355 10141 TIME...MOT...LOC 0407Z 221DEG 53KT 3337 10184 23
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 10:18 PM CST, 6 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1018 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021
TXZ031-037-250445-
Dickens TX-Motley TX-
1018 PM CST Sun Jan 24 2021
...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...
At 1017 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles south of Matador, moving northeast at 50 mph.
Half inch hail and brief heavy rain will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Matador and Roaring Springs.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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LAT...LON 3425 10052 3415 10052 3378 10082 3373 10098
3381 10104 3383 10104 3431 10077 3431 10067
TIME...MOT...LOC 0417Z 209DEG 43KT 3391 10087
23Special weather statement, Jan 24, 10:24 PM CST, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 9:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale, Lubbock, Terry | 41 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, 10:34 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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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.