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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2025, 6:25 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 50 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 17, 2025, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2025, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 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 Jun 17, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 2:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX Issued by National Weather Service Norman OK 252 PM CDT Tue Jun 17 2025 TXZ021>044-182000- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 252 PM CDT Tue Jun 17 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Hot conditions are expected today with highs near or just above 105 degrees. A Heat Advisory is in effect until 9 PM for much of the South Plains. There is a slight chance of thunderstorms east of I-27 this evening. The threat for severe weather is low overall, but some storms may produce strong wind gusts and large hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There is a low chance of thunderstorms across the Rolling Plains Wednesday afternoon. Some storms may produce strong wind gusts and large hail. Thunderstorm chances return to portions of the region Sunday and Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 9:47 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 40 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.