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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1994, 10:29 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1994, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 120331 TORLBB TXC279-120345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1029 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHEASTERN LAMB COUNTY AT 1025 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF OLTON IN LAMB COUNTY. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED 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, Jun 11, 8:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
TXZ027>030-033>036-039>042-120220- 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:05 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
TXZ027>030-033>036-039>042-120405- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1004 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TERRY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 1000 PM CDT... AT 955 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS FROM WESTERN TERRY COUNTY EXTENDING EAST TO LYNN AND GARZA COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EASTERN TERRY COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF BROWNFIELD AND JUST NORTHWEST OF NEW MOORE. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS IN CASTRO AND PARMER COUNTIES NORTH OF BAILEY LAMB AND HALE COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL APPROACH THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS BY 1100 PM CDT. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 68 min |
| Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 31 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.