Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 4:58 AM CDT for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 4:58 AM CDT (09:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crosby County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 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 270958 SVRLBB TXC107-271045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 458 AM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...CROSBY COUNTY AT 457 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING SOUTHERN CROSBY COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Apr 27, 4:04 AM CDT, 54 minutes before
TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-039>042-045>047-271005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 404 AM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 400 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER SOUTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY AND NORTHERN LYNN COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE SOUTH OF LUBBOCK AND SOUTH OF WOOLFORTH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONC2ERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 5:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 42 min |
| Apr 27, 5:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 6:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.