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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2023, 8:02 PM CDT for Garza County, Lynn County, 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 22, 2023, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2023, 8:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Garza County, TX, Lynn County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 790 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 22, 6:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 239 PM CDT Mon May 22 2023 TXZ021>044-231945- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 239 PM CDT Mon May 22 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Severe thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon mainly along and east of a line from Dimmitt to Morton and spread east southeast off the Caprock through the evening. Damaging wind gusts to 70 mph, hail to the size of ping pong ball and heavy rain at times will be possible with these storms. The greatest potential for localized flooding is expected across the Rolling Plains and far southeast Texas Panhandle. The threat for a tornado remains low, but cannot be ruled out. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Severe thunderstorms are possible Tuesday afternoon and evening across most of the region, with hail to quarter size and wind gusts to 70 mph the primary hazards. Torrential rainfall may also result in localized flash flooding on Tuesday evening, especially off the Caprock. Daily chances for thunderstorms continue Wednesday through Sunday. Some of these storms may be severe with damaging winds, large hail, and locally heavy rainfall. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 22, 5:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 22, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock | 41 min |
| May 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 31 min |
| May 22, 7:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | King, Stonewall | 2 hr |
| May 22, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 32 min |
| May 23, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 58 min |
| May 23, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 53 min |
| May 23, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 61 min |
| May 23, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 45 min |
| May 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 24 min |
| May 23, 5:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 81 min |
| May 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 46 min |
| May 23, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 55 min |
| May 23, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 54 min |
| May 23, 5:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Parmer | 113 min |
| May 23, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 37 min |
| May 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 60 min |
| May 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 60 min |
| May 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Parmer | 2 hr |
| May 23, 6:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Swisher | 2 hr |
| May 23, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 55 min |
| May 23, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 48 min |
| May 23, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 38 min |
| May 23, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer | 51 min |
| May 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Lamb | 51 min |
| May 23, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 49 min |
| May 23, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 46 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.