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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 1987, 6:49 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1987, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1987, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 092349 RRA
TORLBB
TXC303-100030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
649 PM CDT WED SEP 9 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...WESTERN LUBBOCK
AT 650 PM CDT...A SEVERAL SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO JUST
WEST OF REESE AIR FORCE BASE...NEAR SMYER. THIS STORM IS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR.
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.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, Sep 9, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 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, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 68 min |
| Sep 9, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 67 min |
| Sep 9, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 63 min |
| Sep 9, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 39 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.