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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 24, 2022Cochran County, Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2022, 4:51 PM CDT for Cochran County, Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2022, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2022, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
227 PM CDT Tue May 24 2022

.SHORT TERM...

No change for today's forecast from the Mesoscale Update issued at
noon. Later tonight, shower and thunderstorm coverage is expected
to diminish and/or move E-NE out of our area by midnight. Cooler
air filling in behind the upper level low over the Panhandles of
Texas and Oklahoma will drop overnight lows area wide, into the
mid-40s. Northerly winds tomorrow afternoon will keep temperatures
in the low to mid 70s, even as heights and thickness' increase
from the building ridge to our west. Breezy early afternoon winds
will begin to ease as the ridge expands eastward, setting up a
very pleasant Spring day and evening tomorrow.

.LONG TERM...

A largely uneventful pattern returns later this week accompanied by
a return to triple digit heat for much of the region. This is thanks
to an upper low lumbering its way out of the southern Great Plains
Wednesday night ahead of upper ridging with strong height rises and
toasty thicknesses for the weekend. Although PWATs during this
time will be around 1/2" (close to normal for late May), background
support for ascent will be too poor for any further rain chances.

As the upper ridge flattens on Friday while shifting downstream of
the region, deeper W-SW flow will open the oven door and result in
widespread triple digit highs this weekend which linger into early
next week. Can't argue much with the NBM and MOS which favor the
hottest highs by Sunday when portions of Stonewall County may hit
110 degrees, although this should still be too isolated and brief
for heat advisory considerations. Not until just beyond the scope
of this forecast (next Tue/Wed) does the pattern begin to trend a
bit more interesting as models favor weak cyclonic SW flow ahead
of a deep low in the Great Basin.

&&

.LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.
&&

55/93

Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 12:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1206 PM CDT Tue May 24 2022

TXZ021>044-251715-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1206 PM CDT Tue May 24 2022

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

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Thunderstorms, some severe, are expected to form across the South
Plains and Rolling Plains early this afternoon and persist into the
evening hours. Initially, the primary threat will be hail up to the
size of quarters and wind gusts to 70 mph however a tornado cannot be
completely ruled out. As we go through the evening the threat will
transition to mostly a wind threat. Locally heavy rainfall will also
be possible with the strongest storms and could pose a localized
flooding risk.

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

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 4:20 PM CDT, 31 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 23, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Lamb, Parmer	46 min
May 23, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	32 min
May 23, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Parmer	61 min
May 23, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	35 min
May 23, 8:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	2 hr
May 23, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	34 min
May 23, 8:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Parmer	2 hr
May 23, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Parmer	31 min
May 23, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	38 min
May 23, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Castro, Parmer	33 min
May 23, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hockley	32 min
May 23, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Lamb, Parmer	47 min
May 23, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hockley	37 min
May 23, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Castro	16 min
May 23, 9:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Castro	56 min
May 23, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lubbock	67 min
May 23, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer	47 min
May 23, 10:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	58 min
May 23, 10:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Castro	92 min
May 23, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Castro	23 min
May 23, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer	48 min
May 23, 11:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	3 hr
May 23, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	56 min
May 24, 12:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hale, Lamb	4 hr
May 24, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	67 min
May 24, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Hale	52 min
May 24, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	59 min
May 24, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	47 min
May 24, 4:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	41 min
May 24, 5:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	68 min
May 24, 6:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	96 min
May 24, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	56 min
May 24, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	60 min
May 24, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	50 min
May 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, Yoakum	28 min
May 24, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lynn, Terry	57 min
May 24, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	61 min
May 24, 5:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock	2 hr
May 24, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	50 min
May 24, 5:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	3 hr
May 24, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley	13 min
May 24, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby	61 min
May 24, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby	24 min
May 24, 6:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	2 hr
May 24, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby	18 min
May 24, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Garza	34 min
May 24, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Lubbock	31 min
May 24, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	52 min
May 24, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King and 1 more	31 min
May 24, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	16 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.