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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Lubbock, TX
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.
- 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
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
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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.