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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 22, 2023Childress County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2023, 5:47 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: Jun 22, 2023, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2023, 6:28 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Childress County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -352 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 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 Jun 22, 2:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 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
Jun 21, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	50 min
Jun 21, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	33 min
Jun 21, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Motley	34 min
Jun 21, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Dickens, Motley	37 min
Jun 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Dickens, Motley	24 min
Jun 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, King	65 min
Jun 21, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Floyd, Motley	33 min
Jun 21, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Dickens, Motley	35 min
Jun 21, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	49 min
Jun 21, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	55 min
Jun 21, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	54 min
Jun 21, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	45 min

Nearby

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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.