Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

Issued

May 15, 1989, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)

Expired

May 15, 1989, 5:15 PM CDT

In force

54 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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TTAA00 KLBB 152122
TORLBB
TXC189-152215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
421 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
          ...EASTERN HALE
 
AT 420 PM CDT SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF FM 400 AND STATE HIGHWAY 37. THIS LOCATION IS ABOUT 12
MILES SOUTH OF PLAINVIEW. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR.
 
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 AVAIL/ABLE...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.

In the hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
215 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989

        ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN TEXAS...

THE ELEMENTS FOR A SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
WEST TEXAS ARE IN PLACE FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.  THE MOST
PRONE LOCALES FOR SEVERE STORMS EXTEND FROM THE MIDLAND AREA NORTHWARD
THROUGH THE SOUTH PLAINS.

THE ANTICIPATED SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE CAUSED BY GULF MOISTURE FLOWING
INTO THE REGION AS DRY AIR OFF THE MEXICAN PLATEAU DRIVES NORTHEAST IN
THE TRANS-PECOS REGION.  A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL JET STREAM PUSHING OUT
OF NORTHERN MEXICO IS FOCUSING THE DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS ALONG THE DRY
LINE THAT CURVES FROM SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THROUGH THE PERMIAN BASIN.

AS OF 210 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY FROM WEST OF
CLOVIS TO NEAR LUBBOCK.  LATER IN THE AFTERNOON...BIG STORMS SHOULD
ERUPT FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN NORTHWARD INTO THE S+OUTH PLAINS.

WEST TEXAS RESIDENTS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS BY TUNING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA.

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1989Every tornado warning in 1989Tornadoes 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.