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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 15, 2024Terry County, Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2024, 8:37 PM CDT for Terry County, Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 15, 2024, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2024, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 Jun 15, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 8:30 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	40 min
Jun 15, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock	46 min
Jun 15, 8:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley	93 min
Jun 15, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Terry	47 min
Jun 15, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	32 min
Jun 15, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lynn, Terry	47 min
Jun 16, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn, Terry, Yoakum	44 min
Jun 16, 4:14 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	LUB	Garza, Lynn	116 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.