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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 17, 2021Dickens County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at May 17, 2021, 2:09 AM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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 17, 2021, 2:09 AM CDT (07:09 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2021, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

County Dickens County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.

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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: 449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 May 17, 12:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 12:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 11:47 AM CDT, 14 hours 22 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1147 AM CDT Sun May 16 2021

TXZ021>044-171700-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1147 AM CDT Sun May 16 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 thunderstorms are possible along the dryline late this
afternoon, which will be located across the western South Plains near
the New Mexico border. If storms develop they will have a risk for
quickly becoming severe producing hail to 2 inches or larger, wind
gusts to 70 mph and torrential rainfall.

In addition, a complex of strong to severe thunderstorms is expected
to develop over northeast New Mexico late this afternoon, spreading
into the Texas Panhandle and northern South Plains this evening, and
then the Rolling Plains later tonight. Wind gusts in excess of 70
mph, hail to 2 inches diameter, and brief heavy rainfall will all be
possible with this activity.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms are expected along and
east of a dryline Monday afternoon and evening, with significant
severe weather possible, 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 and Rolling Plains late
Monday night into Tuesday as an upper level storm system approaches
the region.

More opportunities for thunderstorms will exist Wednesday and then
again Friday and Saturday. 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 16, 10:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 10:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 11:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 11:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 12:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 2:09 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Lamb	43 min
May 16, 7:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	2 hr
May 16, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle	46 min
May 16, 7:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Castro, Lamb	114 min
May 16, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Lamb	33 min
May 16, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall, Swisher	61 min
May 16, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Lamb	32 min
May 16, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe	40 min
May 16, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	46 min
May 16, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	57 min
May 16, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	18 min
May 16, 9:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Motley	2 hr
May 16, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hall, Motley	65 min
May 16, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	45 min
May 16, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent, King, Stonewall	58 min
May 16, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	23 min
May 16, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, King and 1 more	66 min
May 16, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock	46 min
May 16, 11:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, Floyd, King, Motley	2 hr
May 16, 11:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Hale	113 min
May 16, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, King, Motley	63 min
May 17, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, King, Motley	65 min
May 17, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	53 min
May 17, 1:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Kent	2 hr
May 17, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	19 min
May 17, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	25 min
May 17, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Floyd	24 min
May 17, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Dickens	33 min
May 17, 3:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Hale	118 min
May 17, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Dickens	33 min
May 17, 5:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	52 min
May 17, 1:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	12 min
May 17, 2:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	9 hr
May 17, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Garza, Kent	68 min
May 17, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	56 min
May 17, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey	57 min
May 17, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent	66 min
May 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	55 min
May 17, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens	34 min
May 17, 5:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	3 hr
May 17, 5:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Bailey	3 hr
May 17, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Motley	38 min
May 17, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	39 min
May 17, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	64 min
May 17, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	53 min
May 17, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Stonewall	27 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Lynn	67 min
May 17, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Swisher	63 min
May 17, 6:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	114 min
May 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Stonewall	31 min
May 17, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Terry	66 min
May 17, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	63 min
May 17, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall, Motley	56 min
May 17, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	65 min
May 17, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe	63 min
May 17, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn, Terry	62 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.