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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2021, 9:27 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 14, 2021, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 981 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
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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 May 14, 6:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 229 PM CDT Fri May 14 2021 TXZ021>044-151930- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 229 PM CDT Fri May 14 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon in eastern New Mexico, then spread across the Texas Panhandle and northern parts of the Texas South Plains and Rolling Plains this evening. Locally strong wind gusts up to 65 mph will be possible from the strongest thunderstorms along with a risk for hail near the size of quarters. Storms will also be capable of brief heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Scattered to numerous thunderstorms are expected Saturday afternoon and evening. Some of these storms will be severe and produce heavy rainfall. Additional rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible from Sunday into much of next week, with significant severe weather possible Monday afternoon in the northeastern Rolling Plains. Tuesday currently appears as a particularly active day for severe thunderstorm and flash flooding chances. Heavy rainfall and a risk of flooding will also accompany the more intense thunderstorm activity over the coming week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. 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 14, 8:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 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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| May 14, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 65 min |
| May 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lamb | 33 min |
| May 14, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lamb | 33 min |
| May 14, 9:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 13 min |
| May 14, 9:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 2 hr |
| May 14, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lamb | 33 min |
| May 14, 11:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Bailey | 25 min |
| May 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 60 min |
| May 15, 4:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 115 min |
| May 15, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 39 min |
| May 15, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley | 53 min |
| May 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley | 65 min |
| May 15, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 56 min |
| May 15, 6:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cochran | 50 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.