Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1986, 4:58 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 29, 1986, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1986, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Lubbock, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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, Sep 29, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
{4PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986
{A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM CDT FOR COTTLE...KING...YOAKUM
...BAILEY...CROSBY...FLOYD...LAMB...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK...TERRY
...DICKENS...HALE AND MOTLEY COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS.
AT 355PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
OVER PORTIONS OF TERRY...LYNN...LUBBOCK...HALE AND FLOYD COUNTIES WITH
AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST DICKENS COUNTY. STRONGEST STORMS
WERE FROM EXTREME NORTHWEST LUBBOCK COUNTY NORTHEAST THROUGH HALE COUNTY.
MOVEMENT OF ALL STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED AND NONE HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA ARE URGED
TO REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF SEVERE WEA-
THER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. {The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 6:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 55 min |
| Sep 29, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 58 min |
| Sep 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 61 min |
| Sep 29, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.