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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1986, 6:07 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1986, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 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, 11.1 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 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 252308 TORLBB TXC303-260000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 607 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF WEST TEXAS...LUBBOCK AT 605 PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SIGHTED 5 MILES NORTH OF LUBBOCK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLIGISTS. THIS STORM IS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK.. AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF ABERNATHY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY INTENSE LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 25, 4:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 425 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 425 PM CDT VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF THE HALE AND FLOYD COUNTY LINES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN BAILEY..COCHRAN..HOCKLEY.. YOAKUM AND TERRY COUNTIES. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN LYNN AND GARZA COUNTIES ALSO. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS..BUT.. THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IS PRESENT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:20 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 520 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 517 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF HALE AND LAMB COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTH AND WEST OF PLAINVIEW. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN FLOYD AND HOCKLEY COUNTIES. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS..BUT.. THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IS PRESENT. THE WEATHER CAN TURN SEVERE VERY QUICKLY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. LISTEN TO NOAA W"EATHER RADIO AND LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:58 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 557 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 555 PM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD OVER THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF MULESHOE..ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN LITTLEFIELD AND PLAINVIEW AND ALSO NORTH OF PADUCAH. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND WAS REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY OF EDMONSON IN NORTHERN HALE COUNTY AT 515 PM. HEAVY RAIN FELL IN PLAINVIEW AT 520 PM. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS..BUT.. THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL..STRONG WIND..FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ON THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 55 min |
| May 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 68 min |
| May 24, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 56 min |
| May 24, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 42 min |
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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.