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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 8, 1986Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1986, 4:37 PM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1986, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hockley 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 12:00Z on 1986-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1499 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 12:00Z on 1986-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 082153
TORLBB
TXC219-082245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
437 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

NORTHWEST TEXAS...HOCKLEY

AT 435 PM LUBBOCK RADAR WAS SHOWING A POSSIBLE TORNADO A FEW
MILES WEST OF LEVELLAND IN CENTRAL HOCKLEY COUNTY. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH.

PERSONS IN LEVELLAND..PETTIT AND COBLE ARE NEAR THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.

THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
AND UNDERPASSES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 12:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb60 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes 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.