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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1987, 6:58 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1987, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1987, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hale 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 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 292358
TORLBB
TXC189-300100-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
658 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...HALE
AT 658 PM THE HALE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A
TORNADO ON THE GROUND 5 MILES NORTH OF ABERNATHY. THIS
TORNADO WAS LIKELY MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS....PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 1 hour 53 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, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn | 58 min |
| May 29, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 56 min |
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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.