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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1988, 6:17 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1988, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1988, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 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, 11.3 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
- 1501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBB 262319
TORLBB
TXC303-262345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
617 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...SOUTHERN LUBBOCK
AT 614 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC ABOUT 8 MILES WEST
OF THE COMMUNITY OF WOODROW IN SOUTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS
TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODHY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.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, Jul 26, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
445 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 1988
...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS...
AT 442 PM CDT LUBBOCK RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME
STRONG...DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH
PLAINS. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER FLOYD...KENT AND HOCKLEY
COUNTIES.
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WIND
MAY BE EXPECTED IN THE STRONGER STORMS.
STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION...OR LISTEN TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:43 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 543 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 1988 AT 540 PM CDT LUBBOCK RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS...SOME STRONG...ACROSS THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CROSBY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH- WEST OF CROSBYTON. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND+ POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED WITH PASSAGE OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION...OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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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.