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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 4, 1986Hale County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1986, 11:05 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 4, 1986, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1986, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hale 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 810 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
810 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale52 min
May 4, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd60 min
May 4, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley45 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.