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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2026, 6:20 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 40 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
- May 15, 2026, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crosby County, TX, Garza County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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 May 14, 6:27 PM CDT, 23 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:27 PM CDT, 23 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 35 min |
| May 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 32 min |
| May 14, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Lynn and 1 more | 45 min |
| May 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Hall, King, Motley and 1 more | 33 min |
| May 14, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 23 min |
| May 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 16 more | 21 hr |
| May 15, 11:14 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 16 more | 11 hr |
| May 15, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 41 min |
| May 15, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Hockley, Lamb | 25 min |
| May 15, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 31 min |
| May 15, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 37 min |
| May 15, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Parmer, Swisher | 32 min |
| May 15, 4:51 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 24 min |
| May 15, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 46 min |
| May 15, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 43 min |
| May 15, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 31 min |
| May 15, 5:15 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:19 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Parmer, Swisher | 49 min |
| May 15, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 47 min |
| May 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry, Yoakum | 44 min |
| May 15, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 51 min |
| May 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 60 min |
| May 15, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn, Terry | 61 min |
| May 15, 6:55 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 35 min |
| May 15, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King and 3 more | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.