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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1986, 1:49 PM CDT for Bailey County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 4, 1986, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1986, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bailey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bailey, TX | |
| Jun 4, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bailey, 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 041850 TORLBB TXC017-041945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 149 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF WEST TEXAS...BAILEY AT 145 PM THE BAILEY COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF MULESHOE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS OF MULSHOE..FAIRVIEW AND NEEDMORE IN BAILEY COUNTY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY !
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, Jun 4, 11:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1110 AM CDT WED JUN 4 1986
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON...
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS STILL IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY.
THE WATCH AREA EXTENDS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ROBERT LEE AND
STERLING CITY TO BARNHART AND SHEFFIELD. THIS INCLUDES SAN ANGELO.
SCATTTERED HEAVY RAINS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS HAVE LEFT
THE GROUND SATURATED..AND ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ONCE AGAIN
FAVOR DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN.
SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL TODAY COULD RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF..SO THOSE
AREAS NORMALLY PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING WILL BE ESPECIALLY HAZARDOUS
TODAY.
RESIDENTS IN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA ARE ADVISED TO KEEP UP ON THE
LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. TUNE IN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ROUTINELY
FOR UPDATES..BE READY TO SEEK HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY SHOULD A WARNING
BE ISSUED. ABOVE ALL..DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DR<IVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER
CROSSINGS.Special weather statement, Jun 4, 12:59 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1258 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 1255 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN LAMB AND WESTERN HALE COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ALONG THE LAMB AND HALE COUNTY LINE..15 MILES WEST OF HALE CENTER. THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT HAIL WAS FALLING FROM THESE STORMS AT TIMES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE SOUTH PLAINS..WHILE AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS CONTINUING ACROSS THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. ALL THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY..THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SOAKING RAINS CAN EXPECT PROBLEMS WITH PONDING OR STREET FLOODING. THERE IS ALSO POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AT TIMES WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 69 min |
| Jun 4, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.