Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1990, 7:05 PM CDT for Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1990, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yoakum 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 040006 TORLBB TXC501-040030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 705 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN YOAKUM COUNTY AT 700 PM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY IN PLAINS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND ALONG THE YAOKUM/COCHRAN COUNTY LINE...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST. 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 FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITBH YOUR HANDS.
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, Aug 3, 3:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-032145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 341 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS... AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR TULIA TO NORTH OF CLOVIS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED ACROSS MOTLEY AND COTTLE COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL... RESULTING IN FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. PERSONS ACROSS THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THE STORMS APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. K GW
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:17 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
TXZ007>012-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 615 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY... AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A COUPLE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VICINITY OF LUBBOCK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ONE WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF THE AIRPORT AND THE OTHER ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF THE AIRPORT. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LIKELY SOME SMALL HAIL. IN THE VICINITY OF THE STORMS...VISIBILITY WAS ALSO BEING REDUCED SOMEWHAT DUE TO BLOWING DUST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK MAY EXPERIENCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL UNTIL AROUND 730 PM THIS EVENING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DB
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.