Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 10:47 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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, Jun 2, 5:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
TXZ027>043-022325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 522 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 520 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF FLOYDADA NEAR DOUGHERTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN MOTLEY COUNTY WEST OF MATADOR BY 545 PM. STRONG GUSTY WIND...HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. ANOTHER STORM HAD DEVELOPED NEAR OLTON IN NORTHEAST LAMB COUNTY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Terry | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 11:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 16 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.