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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1991, 8:31 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1991, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1991, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 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, 1.5 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
- 2246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 110132 TORLBB TXC279-110200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 831 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN LAMB COUNTY AT 830 PM RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE POSSIBLE TORNADOES OVER SOUTHWEST LAMB COUNTY. SEVERAL TORNADOS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THIS AREA. THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM IS NOW MOVING EAST AT 15 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 BLANKETS...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 10, 4:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 401 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES HALE...LAMB...BAILEY...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY... LUBBOCK...YOAKUM...TERRY... AND LYNN COUNTIES. AT 350 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF POST IN GARZA COUNTY AND NEAR CLAIREMONT IN KENT COUNTY. ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED WELL SOUTHWEST OF MIDLAND IN THE PERMIAN BASIN. ALTHOUGH NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE PORTION OF THE SOUTH PLAINS IN THE TORNADO WATCH...THE AIRMASS OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE. A DRYLINE HAS FORMED OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 400 AND 600 PM IN THIS AREA AND MOVE ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA... SO PEOPLE ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS SHOULD BE ON THE L)OOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 4:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-102245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 444 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR BAILEY... LAMB...HAL
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-102345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 510 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR BAILEY... LAMB...HALE...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK...YOAKUM...TERRY...AND LYNN COUNTIES... AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS IN SOUTHERN COCHRAN COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITEFACE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH PLAINS WITH THE STRONGEST STORM ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF DICKENS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH PLAINS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR T.V. STATIONS FOR LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 57 min |
| May 10, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 35 min |
| May 10, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 50 min |
| May 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 25 min |
| May 10, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 50 min |
| May 11, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 67 min |
| May 11, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 52 min |
| May 11, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 48 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.