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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 8:58 PM CDT for Dickens County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dickens County, TX, King County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 1607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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, Jul 2, 5:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ027>043-022355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 549 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR HALE-FLOYD-MOTLEY AND COTTLE COUNTIES... ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR KING COUNTY... AT 546 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...MAINLY OVER BAILEY...CENTRAL HALE AND FLOYD COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING...RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE CURRENT WEATHER SITUATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A REINFORCED BUILDING.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ027>043-030035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 630 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR HALE-FLOYD-MOTLEY AND COTTLE COUNTIES... ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR KING COUNTY... AT 630 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING...RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE CURRENT WEATHER SITUATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A REINFORCED BUILDING.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
TXZ027>043-030120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 716 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR HALE-FLOYD-MOTLEY AND COTTLE COUNTIES... ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR KING COUNTY... AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN HALE COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF HALE CENTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN BRISCOE COUNTY IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY MOVE INTO NORTHERN MOTLEY COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF FLOMOT BY 730 PM. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING...RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE CURRENT WEATHER SITUATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A REINFORCED BUILDING. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WIND...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 7:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
TXZ027>043-030120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 716 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR HALE-FLOYD-MOTLEY AND COTTLE COUNTIES... ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR KING COUNTY... AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN HALE COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF HALE CENTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN BRISCOE COUNTY IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY MOVE INTO NORTHERN MOTLEY COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF FLOMOT BY 730 PM. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING...RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE CURRENT WEATHER SITUATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A REINFORCED BUILDING. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING W IND...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 8:27 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 44 min |
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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.