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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2026, 7:07 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 53 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, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2026, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Hall County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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 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 |
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 41 min |
| May 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King and 2 more | 47 min |
| May 15, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 42 min |
| May 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent, Stonewall | 60 min |
| May 15, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 64 min |
| May 15, 10:32 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 16 more | 22 hr |
| May 16, 12:08 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 23 hr |
| May 16, 12:08 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens and 14 more | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.