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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 8, 20254 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2025, 6:46 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 30 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 8, 2025, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2025, 7:16 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 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 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 8, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 1608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -303 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 8, 1:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 11:16 AM CDT, 7 hours 30 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1116 AM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025

TXZ021>044-091630-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1116 AM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025

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 are expected to develop late this afternoon
through evening. The greatest chances are over the far southern
Texas Panhandle and the Rolling Plains although thunderstorm
development over the South Plains cannot be ruled out. Strong wind
gusts up to 90 mph, very large hail up to softball size, localized
flooding, and tornadoes can be expected with any severe thunderstorms
that develop.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Daily chances for thunderstorms continue this week. Light winds
aloft will be favorable for locally heavy rain and flooding at
times, especially Tuesday and Wednesday. Some severe thunderstorms
will also be possible.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:00 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:08 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:20 PM CDT, 26 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 8, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Briscoe, Castro, Swisher	63 min
Jun 8, 4:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Crosby	23 min
Jun 8, 5:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock	61 min
Jun 8, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	66 min
Jun 8, 6:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	96 min
Jun 8, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	81 min
Jun 8, 12:26 PM CDT	Flood Watch	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Hall, King, Motley and 1 more	12 hr
Jun 8, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Childress	25 min
Jun 8, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	45 min
Jun 8, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Childress	32 min
Jun 8, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	82 min
Jun 8, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	68 min
Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	55 min
Jun 8, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cottle, King	40 min
Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	65 min
Jun 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Garza, Kent, Stonewall	62 min
Jun 8, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cottle, King, Motley	67 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.