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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 29, 2025Dickens County, Garza County, Kent County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2025, 1:51 AM CDT for Dickens County, Garza County, Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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, 1:51 AM CDT (06:51 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2025, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dickens County, TX, Garza County, TX, Kent County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:54 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 12:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lynn, Terry	59 min
Apr 29, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	28 min
Apr 29, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Garza, Lynn	67 min
Apr 29, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza	65 min
Apr 29, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	39 min
Apr 29, 2:38 AM CDT	Flood Watch	LUB	Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 6 more	28 hr
Apr 29, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Lynn	44 min
Apr 29, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	40 min
Apr 29, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Garza, Lynn	62 min
Apr 29, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Lubbock	31 min
Apr 29, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock	49 min
Apr 29, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	42 min
Apr 29, 3:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Garza	95 min
Apr 29, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, Lynn	62 min
Apr 29, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd	13 min
Apr 29, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	64 min
Apr 29, 4:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent	95 min
Apr 29, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	56 min
Apr 29, 5:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	118 min
Apr 29, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	39 min
Apr 29, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Lynn	31 min
Apr 29, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	62 min
Apr 29, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza	10 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.