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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 29, 20244 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2024, 2:08 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 67 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 29, 2024, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2024, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Hockley County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 771 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 204 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-329 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.0

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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 May 28, 6:28 PM CDT, 7 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 6:28 PM CDT, 7 hours 40 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 11:06 AM CDT, 15 hours 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1106 AM CDT Tue May 28 2024

TXZ021>044-291615-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1106 AM CDT Tue May 28 2024

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 will develop this afternoon and persist through
the evening hours. The primary hazards will include very large hail
to the size of baseballs, damaging wind gusts up to 80 mph, and a few
tornadoes, especially along the Interstate 27 corridor. Flash
flooding will also accompany storms this afternoon and evening.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Severe thunderstorm chances are forecast to increase on Thursday.
All hazards will be possible, including: damaging winds, very large
hail, although unlikely a tornado or two cannot be ruled out.

The potential for severe weather remains in the forecast heading
into the weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn45 min
May 28, 7:11 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBHockley47 min
May 28, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall67 min
May 28, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBKent46 min
May 28, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBLubbock, Lynn50 min
May 28, 8:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBGarza, Kent, Stonewall119 min
May 28, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBGarza, Lynn39 min
May 28, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBBailey, Cochran67 min
May 29, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBBailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb53 min
May 29, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBHockley, Lubbock, Terry51 min
May 29, 3:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBGarza, Lynn40 min
May 29, 3:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBGarza, Kent28 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.