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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 18, 2021Dickens County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at May 18, 2021, 8:18 PM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: May 18, 2021, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2021, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

County Dickens County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 18, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 11:08 AM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1108 AM CDT Tue May 18 2021

TXZ021>044-191615-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1108 AM CDT Tue May 18 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling
Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon,
primarily west of the Caprock Escarpment. The most intense storms
will be capable of producing hail to golf ball size, wind gusts to 65
mph and heavy rainfall.

This evening, storms are expected to move eastward, mainly affecting
the southern Texas Panhandle and the Rolling Plains. A risk for
large hail, damaging winds, and heavy rainfall will persist with this
activity.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Another round of thunderstorms is possible early Wednesday morning on
the Caprock. At this time, no widespread severe weather is expected
with this round of storms.

More thunderstorms will be possible Wednesday afternoon near the I-27
corridor in the vicinity of a dryline. The main threats with this
activity will be large hail and damaging winds.

Friday into the weekend, active weather will likely return to the
area. Some storms may become strong to severe with an additional risk
for heavy rainfall.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon and tonight. 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 18, 4:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
448 PM CDT Tue May 18 2021

TXZ027-033-182230-
Bailey TX-Cochran TX-
448 PM CDT Tue May 18 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL BAILEY...NORTHERN
COCHRAN AND NORTHWESTERN HOCKLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT...

At 448 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles east of Bledsoe, or 11 miles southwest of Morton, moving
northeast at 15 mph.

Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Morton, Enochs, Lehman, Bledsoe and Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge.

LAT...LON 3396 10276 3377 10261 3365 10261 3352 10292
      3363 10305 3367 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 227DEG 15KT 3364 10293

RMCQUEEN

Local storm report, May 18, 4:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
459 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     FLASH FLOOD      10 SW MULESHOE          34.13N 102.85W
05/17/2021                   BAILEY             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            WATER STILL COVERING PORTIONS OF FM746 THE FOLLOWING
            MORNING.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2100339

MCONDER

Local storm report, May 18, 5:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
545 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0532 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 NE AMHERST            34.02N 102.40W
05/18/2021  M64 MPH          LAMB               TX   MESONET

            WEST TEXAS MESONET

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2100340

KENDRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Kent	30 min
May 18, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cottle	36 min
May 19, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hockley	67 min
May 19, 5:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley	77 min
May 19, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lynn	38 min
May 19, 6:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Hale	77 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.