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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 16, 2021Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2021, 2:11 AM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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, 2:11 AM CDT (07:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2021, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 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 187 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: 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

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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 16, 12:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 12:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 8:12 AM CDT, 17 hours 59 minutes before

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

Local storm report, Jul 15, 10:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 11:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 12:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 12:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:38 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:11 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
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, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	30 min
Jul 16, 1:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	37 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.