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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 11, 1991, 9:07 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1991, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1991, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamb County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 2372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 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 120208 TORLBB TXC279-120245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 907 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...LAMB COUNTY AT 905 PM A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO WEST OF LITTLEFIELD...MOVEMENT UNKNOWN. THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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 BLANKE>TS...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 11, 4:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ007>012-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 420 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 11 PM CDT. ONLY KING COUNTY AND COTTLE COUNTY OF THE EXTREME EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH. AT THIS TIME THE ONLY THUNDERSTORM INDICATED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS WAS IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN HOCKLEY COUNTY JUST WEST OF ROPESVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE REGARDING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. DB
Special weather statement, May 11, 5:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ007>012-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 505 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 11 PM CDT. AT 500 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST HALE COUNTY...ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HALE CENTER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED TO THE WEST OF LUBBOCK...ACROSS EASTERN HOCKLEY AND WESTERN LUBBOCK COUNTIES. AS OF 505 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED IN ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE REGARDING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 66 min |
| May 11, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 30 min |
| May 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley | 54 min |
| May 11, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 54 min |
| May 11, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 66 min |
| May 11, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 43 min |
| May 11, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 65 min |
| May 11, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 65 min |
| May 11, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 49 min |
| May 11, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 62 min |
| May 11, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.