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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at May 15, 2021, 10:07 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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 15, 2021, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2021, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Hale County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 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 123 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
- 826 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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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 15, 7:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 7:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 219 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021 TXZ021>044-161930- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 219 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop across eastern New Mexico and the western South Plains and the southwest Texas Panhandle this afternoon, then increase in coverage as they spread eastward across the Caprock and into the Rolling Plains during the evening hours. The most intense activity will be capable of generating hail as large as golf balls, wind gusts to 70 mph and torrential rainfall and flash flooding with rain totals locally in excess of 3 inches. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Isolated severe thunderstorms are expected along and east of a dryline Sunday afternoon and evening, with the best chances being along and east of the Interstate 27 and Highway 87 Corridor. Storms that do form may be particularly intense, capable of producing very large hail greater than two inches in diameter, damaging wind gusts up to 75 mph, and torrential rainfall. A tornado risk may develop late tomorrow evening as well, though the potential is low. Additional rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible through much of next week, with significant severe weather possible Monday afternoon and evening, favoring the southeast Texas Panhandle and Rolling Plains. The risk for severe weather and flash flooding will expand to include much of the South Plains late Monday night into Tuesday as an upper level storm system approaches the region. More opportunities for thunderstorms will exist the second half of the week. Some of these storms could be strong to severe and produce heavy rainfall. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed. Please relay any information about severe weather to the NWS while following local, state, and CDC guidelines.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 15, 8:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 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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| May 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Yoakum | 56 min |
| May 15, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more | 52 min |
| May 15, 7:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cochran | 109 min |
| May 15, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more | 66 min |
| May 15, 8:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 113 min |
| May 15, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 24 min |
| May 15, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 61 min |
| May 15, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Kent and 4 more | 17 min |
| May 16, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 65 min |
| May 16, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall | 52 min |
| May 16, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 31 min |
| May 16, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 47 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.