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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 19, 2025Garza County, Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2025, 7:47 PM CDT for Garza County, Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 19, 2025, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2025, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Garza County, TX, Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 00:00Z on 2025-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 35 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 00:00Z on 2025-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1328 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 Apr 19, 6:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 6:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
624 PM CDT Sat Apr 19 2025

TXZ021>044-202330-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
624 PM CDT Sat Apr 19 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling
Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected across the South
Plains area this evening and through the overnight hours. Isolated
thunderstorms may become severe, primarily across the southern
Rolling Plains. Hail up to size of quarters, wind gusts up to 60 mph,
and heavy rainfall resulting in localized flash flooding will be
possible with the strongest storms.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.

Daily thunderstorm chances return to the entire forecast area from
Tuesday through Friday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry60 min
Apr 19, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn58 min

Nearby

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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.