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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 23, 2026Cottle County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2026, 1:58 PM CDT for Cottle County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 23, 2026, 1:58 PM CDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2026, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cottle County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 23, 9:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 292 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: 1594 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.1

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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 Jun 23, 12:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 12:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 3:06 AM CDT, 10 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 23, 1:13 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 1:29 PM CDT, 29 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
Jun 23, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress	42 min
Jun 23, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Childress	31 min
Jun 23, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall	41 min
Jun 23, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle	24 min
Jun 23, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Hale	54 min
Jun 23, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	24 min
Jun 23, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Floyd	67 min
Jun 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lubbock, Swisher	57 min
Jun 23, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	41 min
Jun 23, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Hale, Lubbock	36 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.