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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2023, 3:25 PM CDT for King County, Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 12, 2023, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2023, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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 12, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3360 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 12, 3:06 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 3:06 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 2:55 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 255 PM CDT Fri May 12 2023 TXZ021>044-132000- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 255 PM CDT Fri May 12 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Thunderstorms are expected across the Rolling Plains this afternoon and evening. Some storms may become severe with the main threats being large hail up to golf ball size, damaging wind gusts to 70 mph, and localized flooding due to moderate to heavy rainfall. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for Kent and Stonewall Counties until 10 PM CDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Widespread rain showers and embedded thunderstorms are expected on Saturday. Moderate to heavy rainfall at times may lead to localized flash flooding. Chances for showers and thunderstorms continue Sunday through Thursday. Heavy rainfall will remain possible resulting in a continued threat for very localized flooding, especially on Sunday and Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this evening.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Stonewall | 79 min |
| May 12, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 31 min |
| May 12, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 63 min |
| May 12, 4:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Stonewall | 95 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.