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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2022, 5:01 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 44 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 4, 2022, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2022, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 4, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 459 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 4, 1:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 1:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 10:54 AM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1054 AM CDT Wed May 4 2022 TXZ021>044-051600- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1054 AM CDT Wed May 4 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Severe thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon along and east of a dryline around the Interstate 27/US Highway 87 corridor, with the greatest potential being north and east of a line from Silverton to Matador to Guthrie. These thunderstorms will have the potential to produce large hail to the size of baseballs, wind gusts to 70 mph, and isolated tornadoes. Locally heavy rainfall will also be possible. Warm, dry, and breezy conditions will lead to elevated fire weather conditions over the far western South Plains and extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle this afternoon. A rangeland fire danger statement is in effect for these areas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Elevated to critical fire weather conditions may return to portions of the area Sunday and Monday as temperatures rise into the upper 90s to around 100 with dry southwest winds increasing. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 4, 3:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
322 PM CDT WED MAY 04 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0314 PM HAIL 5 NE VIGO PARK 34.70N 101.43W
05/04/2022 E1.00 INCH BRISCOE TX STORM CHASER
&&
EVENT NUMBER LUB2200246
GKENDRICKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 45 min |
| May 4, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 46 min |
| May 4, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 52 min |
| May 4, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 66 min |
| May 4, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 32 min |
| May 4, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 46 min |
| May 4, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 26 min |
| May 4, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 53 min |
| May 4, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 61 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.