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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 24, 2022Crosby County, Dickens County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2022, 6:45 PM CDT for Crosby County, Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 16 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, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2022, 7:01 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 6:38 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:38 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 12:06 PM CDT, 6 hours 39 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, 5:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
542 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2022

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

0537 PM     LANDSPOUT        8 SW CROSBYTON          33.56N 101.34W
05/24/2022                   CROSBY             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            BRIEF LANDSPOUT TORNADO OBSERVED SOUTHWEST OF CROBYTON.
            TORNADO HAD LIFTED BY 540 PM. LOCATION WAS ESTIMATED.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2200057

02

Local storm report, May 24, 6:00 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
600 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2022

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

0552 PM     TSTM WND GST     6 SSW WOLFFORTH         33.42N 102.05W
05/24/2022  M68 MPH          LUBBOCK            TX   MESONET

            WEST TEXAS MESONET. WIND GUSTED BETWEEN 61 AND 68 MPH
            FROM 551 PM TO 555 PM.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2200058

02

Local storm report, May 24, 6:20 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 6:30 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 6:32 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 6:38 PM CDT, 7 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, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	54 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

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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.