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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 4, 2022Kent County, Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2022, 6:44 PM CDT for Kent County, Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2022, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kent County, TX, Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 132 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 4, 1:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 2051 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 8.4

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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 4, 6:28 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 6:28 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 10:54 AM CDT, 7 hours 50 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, 5:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
536 PM CDT WED MAY 04 2022

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

0535 PM     HAIL             3 E AFTON               33.76N 100.76W
05/04/2022  E2.00 INCH       DICKENS            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2200249

MCONDER

Local storm report, May 4, 5:58 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
558 PM CDT WED MAY 04 2022

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

0555 PM     TORNADO          2 NW DUMONT             33.82N 100.54W
05/04/2022                   DICKENS            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MULTIPLE REPORTS OF A SMALL TORNADO

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2200250

MCONDER

Local storm report, May 4, 6:18 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
618 PM CDT WED MAY 04 2022

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

0616 PM     HAIL             4 WSW DELWIN            33.85N 100.46W
05/04/2022  E2.50 INCH       COTTLE             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2200251

MCONDER

Local storm report, May 4, 6:19 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
619 PM CDT WED MAY 04 2022

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

0614 PM     HAIL             4 NNW GROW              33.86N 100.32W
05/04/2022  E1.00 INCH       COTTLE             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB2200252

MCONDER

Local storm report, May 4, 6:38 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 6:41 PM CDT, 3 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 4, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	45 min
May 4, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	44 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 Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hall, Motley	52 min
May 4, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley	66 min
May 4, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley	32 min
May 4, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	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

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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.