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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 24, 1986Bailey County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1986, 8:04 PM CDT for Bailey County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1986, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bailey County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1221 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
550 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY INCREASING IN THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS...

AT 545 PM CDT THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR THE TEXAS-NEW MEXICO
BORDER. ONE WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLAINS..OTHERS WERE JUST WEST OF
MORTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE
ON THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. ALSO..EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH ANY THUNDE_RSTORMS.

KEEP INFORMED..LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 24, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
643 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...

AT 640 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS..AT TIMES WITH HAIL..WERE LOCATED NEAR
AND EAST OF BROWNFIELD IN TERRY COUNTY. ANOTHER WAS IN CENTRAL YOAKUM
COUNTY NEAR PLAINS..AND ANOTHER JUST NORTH OF LITTLEFIELD IN LAMB COUNTY.
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD IN THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. ALL STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

PEA SIZED HAIL FELL JUST WEST OF PLAINS AT 620 PM. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS
BEEN REPORTED YET THIS EVENING. HOWEVER..SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE ON THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. ANY
OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry55 min
May 24, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn68 min
May 24, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley42 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLubbock53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.