Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1987, 6:02 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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
- May 29, 1987, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1987, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lubbock County, TX, Lynn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Lubbock, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 29, 5:05 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
500 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987
...A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 530 PM CDT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR BAILEY...LAMB...HALE...FLOYD...MOTLEY...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...
LUBBOCK...CROSBY...YOAKUM...TERRY...LYNN AND GARZA COUNTIES...
AT 5 PM CDT LUBBOCK RADAR WAS INDICATING A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
IN SOUTHERN LYNN COUNTY NEAR ODONNELL. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT
12 MILES PER HOUR. AT 438 PM THE FIRE STATION AT ODONNELL HAD NO
WEATHER BUT IT THE CLOUDS WERE BOILING. RADAR WAS SHOWING RAPID
INTENSIFICATION.
OTHER ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING IN BAILEY AND COCHRAN COUNTY.
OTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED SOON.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 65 min |
| May 29, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 56 min |
| May 29, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.