Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1987, 6:11 PM CDT for Hale County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1987, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1987, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hale County, TX, Lamb 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 58 min |
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.