Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1986, 4:17 PM CST for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1986, 4:17 PM CST (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1986, 4:55 PM CST
- In force
- 38 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 232221 COR TORLBB TXC303-232315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING..CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 417 PM CST WED APR 23 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF WEST TEXAS...LUBBOCK AT 412 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE SLIDE COMMUNITY WHICH IS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE LUBBOCK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. IT WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY !
Nearby
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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.