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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn | 58 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.