Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 041901 RRA SVRLBB TXC303-041945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 200 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY AT 159 PM CDT...LUBBOCK RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF ABERNATHY ALONG THE LUBBOCK-HALE COUNTY LINE. A SECOND POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NORTHEAST OF REESE AIR FORCE BASE. THIS STORM WAS APPROACHING SHALLOWATER. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 4, 11:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ027>043-041915- SOUTH PLAINS/LOW ROLLING PLAINS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1111 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS MORNING. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL OVER THE AREA AND WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FROM THE WEST...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL OF QUICKLY BECOMING SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 11:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ027>043-041915- SOUTH PLAINS/LOW ROLLING PLAINS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1111 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS MORNING. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL OVER THE AREA AND WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FROM THE WEST...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL OF QUICKLY BECOMING SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 11:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 13 min |
| Jun 4, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 2:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cottle | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 69 min |
| Jun 4, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 52 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.