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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1987, 9:01 AM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1987, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1987, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 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, 2.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 261401 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC219-261445-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
901 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...HOCKLEY
AT 900 AM CDT LUBBOCK RADAR SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOCKLEY
COUNTY...OR ABOUT NORTHWEST 5 MILE NORTHWEST OF LEVELLAND. MOVEMENT
IS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST\ FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 26, 5:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
WEST TEXAS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
530 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
...STRONG SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL IN PLACE OVER THE PANHANDLE AND
SOUTH PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...
A SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES
IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING OVER THE PANHANDLE
AND SOUTH PLAINS. THE AREA OF GREATEST THREAT WILL INCLUDE THE LUBBOCK
VICINITY AND EXTEND NORTHWARD THROUGH THE PANHANDLE. A LESSER CHANCE
OF SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN THIS EVENING.
THE COMBINATION OF ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST...AND A PROMINENT JET IN
THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WILL PROVIDE THE HIGHLY UNSTABLE SETTING FOR THE
STORMS. AS A DRYLINE--OR TROUGH SEPARATING DRY AIR TO THE WEST FROM
MOIST GULF AIR TO THE EAST--SURGES EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON THE STORMS
WILL ERUPT.
DAYTIME HEATING WILL RENDER THE ATMOSPHERE VOLATILE ENOUGH TO
GENERATE A GOOD CHANCE FOR TORNADOES. THE MOST FAVORED TIME OF SEVERE
WEATHER TODAY WILL BE FROM 4 PM CDT THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
RESIDENTS OF THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS ARE THEREFORE ADVISED TO
PAY SPaECIAL ATTENTION TO LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS. DO NOT VENTURE
OUT OF TOUCH OF COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION--OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 45 min |
| May 26, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 59 min |
| May 26, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 50 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.