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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2021, 5:45 PM CDT for Castro County, Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 7, 2021, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2021, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Castro County, TX, Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 598 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 May 7, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 418 PM CDT Fri May 7 2021 TXZ021>044-082130- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 418 PM CDT Fri May 7 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will be possible across the far southern Texas Panhandle and South Plains this evening and tonight. A few of these storms may produce wind gusts up to 65 MPH and hail to the size of quarters. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Hot, dry and gusty southwesterly winds will create critical fire weather, especially west of the Caprock Escarpment, Saturday afternoon and evening. A Fire Weather Watch is in effect from noon until midnight for the South Plains, western Rolling Plains and southern Texas Panhandle. In addition, the southwesterly winds may become sustained in excess of 30 mph over portions of the Caprock Saturday afternoon. Across the Rolling Plains, a conditional risk for isolated severe thunderstorms will exist Saturday evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this evening. Please relay any information about severe weather to the NWS while following local, state, and CDC guidelines.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 7, 5:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 7, 1:26 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens and 13 more | 15 hr |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 30 min |
| May 7, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 27 min |
| May 7, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Castro, Swisher | 65 min |
| May 7, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Terry, Yoakum | 62 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.