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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 17, 2021Kent County, Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at May 17, 2021, 5:08 AM CDT for Kent County, Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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, 5:08 AM CDT (10:08 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2021, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Kent County, TX, Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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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, 3:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 3:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 12:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 2:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 2:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 2:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 4:27 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 5:08 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, 2:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Dickens	51 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, 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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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.