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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 15, 1995Cochran County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 4:43 PM CDT for Cochran County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1995, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Cochran County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 981 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -405 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

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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, May 15, 11:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 15, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

TXZ027>043-152140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
335 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1995

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS...

AT 332 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND
THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
THE BAILEY-LAMB COUNTY BORDER FIVE MILES WEST OF SUDAN.  THIS STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE NEAR SPRINGLAKE
BY 4 PM.

THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN, FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL AS
IT PASSES OVERHEAD.

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.

JW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	51 min
May 15, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Yoakum	44 min
May 15, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	50 min
May 15, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hale	52 min
May 15, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Terry	50 min
May 15, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey	44 min
May 15, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hale	45 min
May 15, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lubbock	40 min
May 15, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Motley	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.