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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 25, 1995Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 6:45 AM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 6:45 AM CDT (11:45 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 7:15 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 879 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 250 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
469 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 251149 COR
SVRLBB
TXC219-251215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
645 AM CDT THU MAY 25 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

   ...HOCKLEY COUNTY

AT 645 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWESTERN HOCKLEY COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LEVELLAND.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS STORM SHOULD AFFECT
LEVELLAND BEFORE 700 AM.

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, May 25, 4:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ027>043-251040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
434 AM CDT THU MAY 25 1995

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS HALE COUNTY...

AT 425 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW.
MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING
OVER THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW BY 440 AM.

PERSONS NEAR THIS STORM SHOULD PREPARE FOR STR^ONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY
RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.

REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT
CLOUD.  TAKE PRECAUTIONS EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM MAY NOT BE
DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.
Special weather statement, May 25, 6:03 AM CDT, 42 minutes before
TXZ027>043-251155-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
604 AM CDT THU MAY 25 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS....

AT 559 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF DENVER CITY...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POST...AND 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF JUSTICEBURG.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSdONS NEAR IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...
HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every 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.