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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 24, 20234 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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 24, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2023, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Parmer County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 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 24, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 24, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 1017 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 24, 6:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 10:36 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1036 PM CDT Wed May 24 2023

TXZ021>044-260345-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1036 PM CDT Wed May 24 2023

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling
Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Severe thunderstorms will expand in coverage across the far southern
Texas Panhandle and South Plains late this evening and move
southeastward through most of the region overnight. The strongest
storms will be capable of producing hail up to tennis ball size,
wind gusts to 80 mph, and possibly a tornado. A Severe Thunderstorm
Watch is in effect for areas on the Caprock until 4 AM CDT.

Torrential rainfall may also result in flash flooding, especially on
the Caprock.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Additional thunderstorms are expected to develop each afternoon and
persist into the evening and overnight hours from Thursday through
Tuesday. Some storms may be severe with large hail and damaging
winds. Heavy rainfall may also result in localized flash flooding.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed tonight.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 10:10 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1010 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2023

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

1005 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 NE FRIONA             34.65N 102.69W
05/24/2023  M64 MPH          PARMER             TX   MESONET

            WEST TEXAS MESONET MEASURED SEVERAL SEVERE
            GUSTS BETWEEN 59 AND 64 MPH, STARTING AT
            9:59 PM AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE CURRENT
            TIME OF 10:05 PM.

&&

Local storm report, May 24, 10:16 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1016 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2023

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

1006 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 NE FRIONA             34.65N 102.69W
05/24/2023  M67 MPH          PARMER             TX   MESONET

            WEST TEXAS MESONET MEASURED SEVERAL SEVERE
            GUSTS BETWEEN 59 AND 67 MPH, STARTING AT
            9:59 PM AND CONTINUING THROUGH 10:09 PM.

&&

Local storm report, May 24, 10:47 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1047 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2023

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

1028 PM     FLOOD            1 N BOVINA              34.53N 102.89W
05/24/2023                   PARMER             TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

            CORRECTS PREVIOUS FLOOD REPORT FROM 1 N
            BOVINA. US-60 IMPASSABLE ON THE NORTH SIDE
            OF BOVINA DUE TO FLOOD WATERS. ALSO "DRIFTS"
            OF HAIL IN PLACES ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.

&&

Local storm report, May 24, 10:50 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1050 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2023

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

1046 PM     FLOOD            1 ENE FRIONA            34.64N 102.71W
05/24/2023                   PARMER             TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

            EXTENSIVE STREET FLOODING IN FRIONA. THIS
            INCLUDES THE ALLSUPS GAS STATION WHICH IS
            FLOODED OUT.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Parmer	89 min
May 24, 9:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Parmer	3 hr
May 24, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	93 min
May 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Parmer	50 min
May 24, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran	60 min
May 24, 10:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey	2 hr
May 24, 11:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cochran	4 hr
May 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	65 min
May 24, 11:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey	2 hr
May 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	60 min
May 24, 11:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Lamb	24 min
May 25, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	67 min
May 25, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	44 min
May 25, 12:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	3 hr
May 25, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	61 min
May 25, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	63 min
May 25, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	53 min
May 25, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	54 min
May 25, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Lynn, Terry	56 min
May 25, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	62 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.