Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1987, 8:09 PM CDT for Lynn County, Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1987, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1987, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lynn County, TX, Terry 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1785 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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, Sep 9, 5:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 500 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE NORTHWEST SOUTH PLAINS... AT 455 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY STRONG...WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS IN LAMB COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF LITTLEFIELD. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER LITTLEFIELD. ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO INCREASE ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT AS A POTENT UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANACE MIGRATES ACROSS THE REGION. THE LAMB COUNTY STORMS ARE THE VANGUARD OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THAT SHOULD AFFECT THE AREA...WITH SOME HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WIND EXPECTED. SOUTH PLAINS RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED THAT SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS IS LIKELY...SINCE REPEATED RAINS DURING THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS HAVE LEFT THE GROtUND QUITE MOIST ALREADY. PERIODIC STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS THIS WEATHER SITUATION DEVELOPS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley | 38 min |
| Sep 9, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 59 min |
| Sep 9, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 55 min |
| Sep 9, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 58 min |
| Sep 9, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 49 min |
| Sep 9, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.