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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 11, 1994Floyd County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1994, 8:31 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1994, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Floyd County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2366 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.0
Supercell composite
15.0

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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, Jun 11, 8:21 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
819 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE CENTRAL
AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR
   SOUTHERN HOCKLEY COUNTY AND NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTY...

AT 805 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY NEAR LOCKNEY...MOVING
TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

ANOTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN HOCKLEY
COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF LOCKETTVILLE.  THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED IN NORTH CENTRAL TERRY COUNTY
JUST NORTHEAST OF LOCKETTVILLE.  OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED IN WEST CENTRAL COCHRAN COUNTY NEAR BLEDSOE...BETWEEN
PLAINS AND DENVER CITY IN YOAKUM COUNTY AND OVER MUCH OF LYNN COUNTY.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO
20 MILES AN HOUR.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO
OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR
AREA.

PEOPLE ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS. REVIEW YOUR SEVERE WEATHER PLANS AND BE READY TO
MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley60 min
Jun 11, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd68 min
Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley31 min
Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry38 min
Jun 11, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry43 min
Jun 11, 10:29 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb16 min
Jun 11, 10:59 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHale31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.