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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2021, 12:30 AM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 16, 2021, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jul 16, 12:19 AM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 12:19 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 812 AM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021 TXZ021>044-161315- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 812 AM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A few strong wind gusts from 50 to 60 mph are possible from isolated to scattered thunderstorms expected across the area later today. Slow-moving thunderstorms may also produce locally heavy rainfall which may lead to minor flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorm chances will continue into this weekend. By Monday, a cold front is forecast to move through the region. A heavy rain event may be possible for parts of the Caprock and Rolling Plains on Monday into Monday night. Additional chances for thunderstorms will be possible into the middle and end of next week as well. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 10:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1020 PM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021
TXZ023-024-029-030-160345-
Floyd TX-Briscoe TX-Swisher TX-Hale TX-
1020 PM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN LUBBOCK...FLOYD...
NORTHWESTERN CROSBY...EASTERN HALE...SOUTHEASTERN SWISHER AND
SOUTHWESTERN BRISCOE COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 PM CDT...
At 1019 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles southwest of Lockney, or 10 miles northwest of Floydada, moving
east at 25 mph.
Nickel size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Plainview, Floydada, Lockney, Petersburg, South Plains, Claytonville,
Aiken and Seth Ward.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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LAT...LON 3432 10120 3397 10118 3383 10138 3383 10168
3400 10172 3440 10173 3442 10142
TIME...MOT...LOC 0319Z 254DEG 22KT 3407 10150
WCI/GKendrickSpecial weather statement, Jul 15, 10:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1057 PM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021 TXZ035-036-160430- Crosby TX-Lubbock TX- 1057 PM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN LUBBOCK AND NORTHWESTERN CROSBY COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT... At 1057 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Idalou, or 13 miles southeast of Abernathy, moving east at 30 mph. Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Lubbock, Idalou and Lorenzo. LAT...LON 3359 10178 3376 10177 3383 10146 3360 10145 TIME...MOT...LOC 0357Z 259DEG 28KT 3368 10170 SINCAVAGE
Local storm report, Jul 15, 10:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 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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| Jul 15, 7:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 116 min |
| Jul 15, 7:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 7:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lamb | 21 min |
| Jul 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Terry | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 45 min |
| Jul 15, 8:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 9:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 119 min |
| Jul 15, 9:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Motley | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 10:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 10:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Floyd | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 33 min |
| Jul 15, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 33 min |
| Jul 15, 11:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Childress, Hall | 88 min |
| Jul 16, 12:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 12:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 1:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 37 min |
| Jul 16, 2:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 34 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.