Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1995, 8:53 PM CDT for Hockley County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 1995, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 2923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Apr 2, 7:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
TXZ027>030-033>036-039>042-030120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 718 PM CDT SUN APR 2 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS FROM BAILEY COUNTY TO EXTREME NORTHERN LAMB COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULESHOE IN BAILEY COUNTY WITH ANOTHER DEVELOPING STORM JUST NORTH OF SPRINGLAKE IN LAMB COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO AROUND 25 MILES SOUTH OF PORTALES. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN BAILEY COUNTY BY 745 PM CDT AND AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF GOODLAND AND MAPLE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL ALSO A POSSIBILITY. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. TAKE PRECAUTIONS EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. TMT
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 7:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
TXZ027>030-033>036-039>042-030120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 718 PM CDT SUN APR 2 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS FROM BAILEY COUNTY TO EXTREME NORTHERN LAMB COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULESHOE IN BAILEY COUNTY WITH ANOTHER DEVELOPING STORM JUST NORTH OF SPRINGLAKE IN LAMB COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO AROUND 25 MILES SOUTH OF PORTALES. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN BAILEY COUNTY BY 745 PM CDT AND AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF GOODLAND AND MAPLE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL ALSO A POSSIBILITY. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. TAKE PRECAUTIONS EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 53 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.