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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 11, 2021Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 11, 2021, 6:53 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 22 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: Jul 11, 2021, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2021, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Jul 11, 6:43 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:43 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 1:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
127 PM CDT Sun Jul 11 2021

TXZ021>044-121830-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
127 PM CDT Sun Jul 11 2021

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

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Strong to severe rain showers and thunderstorms will continue
through late this evening into early Monday morning across the
extreme southwestern South Plains. Locally heavy rainfall that could
lead to localized flash flooding, especially in low lying and poor
drainage areas will be possible. Some of these storms could also be
capable of producing severe wind gusts up to 70 mph and large hail,
but the overall severe weather threat will be localized.

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

Another chance for strong thunderstorms remains possible Thursday
into next weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 5:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 5:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:09 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:53 PM 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
Jul 11, 6:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	King	23 min
Jul 11, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	47 min
Jul 11, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	66 min
Jul 11, 2:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	112 min
Jul 11, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Terry	56 min
Jul 11, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	20 min
Jul 11, 2:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Kent	2 hr
Jul 11, 3:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	81 min
Jul 11, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Kent	31 min
Jul 11, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn, Terry	25 min
Jul 11, 3:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lynn, Terry	96 min
Jul 11, 3:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Garza, Lynn	2 hr
Jul 11, 3:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Kent	67 min
Jul 11, 4:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Floyd	93 min
Jul 11, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	28 min
Jul 11, 4:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Dickens, Floyd, Kent, King, Motley, Stonewall	2 hr
Jul 11, 5:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn	2 hr
Jul 11, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	26 min
Jul 11, 5:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hale, Lubbock	2 hr
Jul 11, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	35 min
Jul 11, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	23 min
Jul 11, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Stonewall	36 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.