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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 2026, 6:41 PM CST for Briscoe County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 5, 2026, 6:41 PM CST (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2026, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Hall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
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 Mar 5, 5:01 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 5:01 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 5, 12:09 PM CST, 6 hours 32 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1209 PM CST Thu Mar 5 2026 TXZ021>044-061815- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1209 PM CST Thu Mar 5 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Thunderstorm chances will expand along and east of the Highway 385 corridor today. Some storms may become severe in the afternoon and evening and will be capable of producing very large hail up to two inches in diameter, damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph, and a tornado or two. The best potential for a tornado will be in the northern Rolling Plains and far southeastern Texas Panhandle this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Isolated thunderstorms may develop early Friday morning across the southern portions of the Caprock and into the Rolling Plains. The primary threat with storms early Friday morning will be large hail. Critical fire weather danger is expected on the Caprock Friday afternoon. A Red Flag Warning is now in effect for areas on the Caprock from 11 AM through 8 PM Friday. Elevated to near critical fire danger is expected off the Caprock where a Rangeland Fire Danger statement has been issued for the same time period. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 4:32 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Parmer | 13 hr |
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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.