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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 9, 20244 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2024, 7:45 AM 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
Apr 9, 2024, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 2024, 8:45 AM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Dickens County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 307 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 287 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-203 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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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 Apr 9, 6:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 6:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 9, 7:28 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 9, 7:30 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent32 min
Apr 8, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent, Stonewall44 min
Apr 8, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn19 min
Apr 8, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent, Stonewall77 min
Apr 8, 8:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby25 min
Apr 8, 8:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLynn30 min
Apr 8, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby52 min
Apr 8, 8:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock21 min
Apr 8, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn, Terry15 min
Apr 8, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock39 min
Apr 8, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley28 min
Apr 8, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent, Stonewall36 min
Apr 8, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing, Stonewall58 min
Apr 9, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran, Yoakum52 min
Apr 9, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent, Lynn30 min
Apr 9, 6:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent64 min
Apr 9, 7:00 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBGarza, Kent, Lynn73 min
Apr 9, 8:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing18 min
Apr 9, 11:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley55 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.