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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 29, 2025Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2025, 12:47 AM CDT for 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 29, 2025, 12:47 AM CDT (05:47 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2025, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 29, 12:09 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 12:09 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lynn, Terry59 min
Apr 29, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBGarza, Lynn67 min
Apr 29, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza65 min
Apr 29, 1:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Garza, Kent39 min
Apr 29, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall39 min
Apr 29, 2:38 AM CDTFlood WatchLUBBriscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 6 more28 hr
Apr 29, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn44 min
Apr 29, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock40 min
Apr 29, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBGarza, Lynn62 min
Apr 29, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBLubbock31 min
Apr 29, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock49 min
Apr 29, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent, King, Stonewall42 min
Apr 29, 3:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBGarza95 min
Apr 29, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, Lynn62 min
Apr 29, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd13 min
Apr 29, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing, Stonewall64 min
Apr 29, 4:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBDickens, Kent95 min
Apr 29, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLUBDickens, Kent, King, Stonewall56 min
Apr 29, 5:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKing, Stonewall118 min
Apr 29, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley39 min
Apr 29, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn31 min
Apr 29, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatLUBDickens, Kent, King, Stonewall62 min
Apr 29, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza10 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.