Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1987, 7:40 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1987, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1987, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd 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, 0.7 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
- 2416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 11.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 4:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
{425 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
{...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
AT 422 PM CDT A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE NORTHERN
PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...
AND INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN ARE MOVING NORTHEAST
TOWARD THE SOUTH PLAINS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES
AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN
THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. {Special weather statement, May 26, 4:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
425 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
{...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN
COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...
AT 422 PM CDT A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE NORTHERN
PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...
AND INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN ARE MOVING NORTHEAST
TOWARD THE SOUTH PLAINS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES
AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN
THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.Special weather statement, May 26, 5:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
425 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
{...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN
COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...
AT 520 PM CDT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER LUBBOCK COUNTY...
WITH OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH
PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN MOVING NORTHEAST
TOWARD THE SOUTH PLAINS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNmADOES
AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.Special weather statement, May 26, 5:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORECTION OF TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
525 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
{...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN
COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...
AT 520 PM CDT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER LUBBOCK COUNTY...
WITH OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH
PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN MOVING NORTHEAST
TOWARD THE SOUTH PLAINS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARrE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES
AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.Special weather statement, May 26, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
610 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
{...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN
COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...
AT 605 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN
LUBBOCK AND HALE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL
HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING SOME POSSIBLE
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREA ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH
THE AREA.
PERSONS SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
OR WARNINGS.Special weather statement, May 26, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 62 min |
| May 27, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 63 min |
| May 27, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 60 min |
| May 27, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 55 min |
| May 27, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens | 56 min |
| May 27, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 3 hr |
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.