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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2024, 6:09 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 1, 2024, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2024, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX
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 1, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 2290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 1, 6:00 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 6:00 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 5:18 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 518 PM CDT Wed May 1 2024 TXZ021>044-022230- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 518 PM CDT Wed May 1 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Tonight. A Tornado Watch is in effect through 11 PM CDT for the eastern South Plains, far southern Texas Panhandle, and the Rolling Plains. A Flood Watch is also in effect through 11 PM CDT for Hall and Childress Counties. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will continue to develop along and east of the Interstate 27 corridor this evening. Severe thunderstorms with hail to softball size, winds up to 75 mph, and localized flooding are all possible. A tornado threat exists across the extreme southeastern Texas Panhandle and northern Rolling Plains this evening as well. Elevated fire weather conditions will develop this afternoon in Parmer and Bailey Counties. A Rangeland Fire Danger statement is in effect from 1 PM until 8 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. A few thunderstorms are possible mainly off the Caprock on Friday. More widespread chances for showers and thunderstorms return on Saturday and Sunday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 1, 5:56 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
556 PM CDT Wed May 1 2024
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0549 PM Tornado 7 NNW Turkey 34.49N 100.94W
05/01/2024 Hall TX Emergency Mngr
Brief tornado touch down 7 miles NNW of
Turkey.
&&The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 64 min |
| May 1, 4:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 78 min |
| May 1, 5:09 PM CDT | Flood Watch | LUB | Childress, Hall | 6 hr |
| May 1, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 38 min |
| May 1, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 64 min |
| May 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 30 min |
| May 1, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 55 min |
| May 1, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn, Terry | 32 min |
| May 1, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 46 min |
| May 1, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 45 min |
| May 1, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 4 hr |
| May 1, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 62 min |
| May 1, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 44 min |
| May 1, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 55 min |
| May 1, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 36 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.