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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2025, 6:18 PM CDT for Castro County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 23, 2025, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2025, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Castro County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 23, 2:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 2:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 259 PM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025 TXZ021>044-242000- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 259 PM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop late this afternoon and evening near the Texas and New Mexico border before expanding over the remainder of the area. Severe storms are likely and will be capable of producing very large hail up to baseball size and damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph. Locally heavy rainfall and flooding are also possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Daily chances for thunderstorms, including severe weather, will continue each afternoon from Thursday through Tuesday. Heavy rain and flooding are possible Friday night into Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:48 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
548 PM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025
TXZ022-232315-
Castro TX-
548 PM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHERN CASTRO COUNTY THROUGH
615 PM CDT...
At 547 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Easter, or 7 miles northwest of Dimmitt, moving northeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Easter and Dimmitt.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
the Panhandle of Texas.
&&
LAT...LON 3464 10210 3454 10231 3464 10249 3475 10239
3475 10223
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 223DEG 10KT 3464 10239
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
APThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Terry, Yoakum | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 18 min |
| Apr 22, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 21 min |
| Apr 22, 8:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 36 min |
| Apr 22, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb, Lubbock | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Motley | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 2 hr |
| Apr 22, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 36 min |
| Apr 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Motley | 36 min |
| Apr 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lamb | 79 min |
| Apr 22, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 66 min |
| Apr 22, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 25 min |
| Apr 22, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby | 87 min |
| Apr 22, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Castro | 27 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.