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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1987, 6:24 PM CDT for Hockley County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1987, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hockley County, TX, Lubbock 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 | |
| May 29, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hockley, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 292324
TORLBB
TXC219-303-300030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
624 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...WESTERN HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK
AT 625 PM CDT SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE
GROUND 2 MILES WEST OF WOLFORTH...MOVING NORTH. THIS IS
JUST SOUTHWEST OF LUBBOCK.
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 FLO OR. 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 19 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, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 62 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.