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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 1994, 6:24 AM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 6:24 AM CDT (11:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County King County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 271124 TORLBB TXC269-271200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 624 AM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHWESTERN KING COUNTY AT 623 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO SOUTH OF DUMONT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. 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 FL*OOR. 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, Apr 27, 4:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 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, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 47 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, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 38 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.