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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1987, 11:09 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1987, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1987, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County King 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBB 280409
SVRLBB
TXC269-280500-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1109 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...SOUTHERN KING
AT 1105 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH JUST NORTH OF THE KING AND
STONEWALL COUNTY LINE. THE BULK OF THIS STORM SHOULD PASS FROM
GUTHRIE SOUTHWARD.
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 27, 7:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 715 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT... AT 715 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHEASTERN KENT COUNTY...IN THE VICINITY OF HARMONY. THIS IS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF JAYTON. THE KENT COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED SMALL HAIL AND VERY GUSTY WINDS JUST NORTH OF HARMONY AT 702 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE IN THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 7:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 745 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT... AT 745 PM SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED IN EASTERN KENT COUNTY AROUND JAYTON AND HARMONY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM HAD PUSHED INTO STONEWALL COUNTY AND OUT OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE IN THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 820 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT... AT 815 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST EAST OF KENT COUNTY...IN STONEWALL COUNTY...HOWEVER THESE CONTINUED TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE IN THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS FORF THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 848 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT... AT 845 PM CDT WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THIS AREA INCLUDED KENT COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN GARZA COUNTY AND SOUTHERN KING COUNTY. STRONGEST ACTIVITY REMAINED SOUTH AND EAST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THERE IS STILL A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 935 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT... AT 935 PM CDT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF KING... AND EASTERN KENT COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 158 MPH. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED OVER STONEWALL COUNTY...JUST EAST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THERE IS STILL A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. KEEP LISTENING FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 10:53 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1045 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR COTTLE LUBBOCK...CROSBY...DICKENS...KING...YOAKUM...TERRY...LYNN...GARZA AND KENT COUNTIES.... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR COTTLE...DICKENS GARZA...KENT AND KING COUNTIES... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN KENT COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1045 PM CDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST. AT 1045 PM VARY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH INTO KING COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS JUST SOUTH OF GUTHRIE. THERE IS A THREAT OF FLOODING IN AND NEAR ANY OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS THE REMIANDER OF THE NIGHT. < 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. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERICAL RADIO...OR WATCH TV FOR LATER STATEMETS AND WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 51 min |
| May 28, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 58 min |
| May 28, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 68 min |
| May 28, 7:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 115 min |
| May 28, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 55 min |
| May 28, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 50 min |
| May 28, 10:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 47 min |
| May 28, 10:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Terry | 3 hr |
| May 28, 12:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 3 hr |
| May 28, 12:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Kent | 3 hr |
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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.