Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1994, 2:32 PM CDT for Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1994, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Terry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 25, 1:53 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ027>043-251955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 153 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS... AT 150 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN BAILEY COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF NEEDMORE AND 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULESHOE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 65 min |
| May 24, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 63 min |
| May 25, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 43 min |
| May 25, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 41 min |
| May 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 32 min |
| May 25, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 33 min |
| May 25, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 43 min |
| May 25, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.