Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX

Issued

May 12, 1989, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)

Expired

May 12, 1989, 3:15 PM CDT

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Lubbock, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Hale County, TX

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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.

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TXC189-122015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
216 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
          ...SOUTHEASTERN HALE
 
AT 210 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERNMOST
HALE COUNTY...NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ABERNATHY. DURING THE PAST FEW
MINUTES SPOTTERS REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
35 MILES AN HOUR WITH THIS STORM AT HIGHWAY 54 AND INTERSTATE 27.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL%...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

In the hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1100 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF
   THE SOUTH PLAINS...

AT 1100 AM CDT RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
NORTHERN PART OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
WERE IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF HALE AND FLOYD COUNTY...AND MUCH OF
MOTLEY COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS IN NORTHERN
HOCKLEY COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTH
PLAINS TODAY. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS SAO000

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1110 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF
   THE SOUTH PLAINS...

AT 1100 AM CDT RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
NORTHERN PART OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
WERE IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF HALE AND FLOYD COUNTY...AND MUCH OF
MOTLEY COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS IN NORTHERN
HOCKLEY COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTH
PLAINS TODAY. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WIND. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO
INTENSIFY AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.