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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 19, 2023Cochran County, Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2023, 6:45 PM CDT for Cochran County, Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 19, 2023, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2023, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cochran County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 361 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 7:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBYoakum26 min
May 18, 10:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher23 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.