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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 31, 1995Floyd County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 9:01 AM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
59 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 14:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 332 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 31, 7:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ027>043-311305-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
705 AM CDT WED MAY 31 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND
   LOW ROLLING PLAINS...

AT 700 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHERN HALE-
FLOYD AND MOTLEY COUNTIES.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF EDMONSON OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
PLAINVIEW.

THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.  IF
THIS THUNDERSTORM MAINTAINS ITS CURRENT SPEED...IT WILL REACH THE
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF HALE AND FLOYD COUNTIES AROUND 8 AM CDT.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS MAY RESULT
IN FLOODING OF ROAD INTERSECTIONS AND LOW-LYING AREAS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey51 min
May 30, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale61 min
May 30, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb30 min
May 30, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd69 min
May 31, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale61 min
May 31, 10:39 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb29 min
May 31, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens68 min
May 31, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza51 min
May 31, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn60 min
May 31, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza58 min
May 31, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley60 min
May 31, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza42 min
May 31, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBMotley50 min
May 31, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle70 min
May 31, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd64 min
May 31, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley54 min
May 31, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, King55 min

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.