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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 23, 2024Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2024, 4:47 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 23, 2024, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2024, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 12:00Z on 2024-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2785 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 12:00Z on 2024-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 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
2785 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
6.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 3:06 AM CDTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Castro, Cochran, Lamb, Parmer, Yoakum18 hr
May 23, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall62 min
May 23, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress40 min
May 23, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing, Stonewall29 min
May 23, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress44 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.