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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 6, 1995Floyd County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1995, 3:23 AM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1995, 3:23 AM CDT (08:23 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1995, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Floyd County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1265 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 060823
SVRLBB
TXC153-060900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
323 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...FLOYD COUNTY
 
AT 322 AM...LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
NORTH OF FLOYDADA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN
FLOYDADA - CEDAR HILL - AND SOUTH PLAINS ARE IN THE IMMEDIATE PATH OF
THIS STORM AND SHOULD TAKE COVER.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry, Yoakum46 min
May 6, 2:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock51 min
May 6, 5:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing32 min
May 6, 6:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing31 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.