Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 1:22 PM CDT for Hockley County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hockley County, TX, Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 499 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 608 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 191823 SVRLBB TXC219-303-445-191915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 122 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...HOCKLEY COUNTY...LUBBOCK COUNTY ...NORTHEASTERN TERRY COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME NORTHEAST TERRY COUNTY AT 120 PM. THE TERRY COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL EAST OF MEADOW AT 120 PM. 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, Apr 19, 11:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
TXZ027-043-192040- SOUTH PLAINS/LOW ROLLING PLAINS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1139 AM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY EAST OF A MATADOR TO CLAIREMONT LINE. THIS MORNING A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE AREA WAS LOCATED NEAR HOBBS NEW MEXICO WITH A WARM FRONT EXTENDING EASTWARD FROM HOBBS TO ABILENE TEXAS. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS OVER SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO AND MOVING NORTHEASTWARD TOWARD THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. BY THIS AFTERNOON...THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL BE LOCATED OVER THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS WITH THE WARM FRONT EXTENDING EASTWARD TOWARD THE RED RIVER. A DRYLINE WILL BE LOCATED FROM THE LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER THE ROLLING PLAINS SOUTHWARD TO THE CONCHO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE AND ALONG THE WARM FRONT AHEAD OF THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS SHOULD BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. HOWEVER...TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE DUE TO A FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE IN THE ATMOSPHERE. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. TMT
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 12:44 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
TXZ027>030-033>036-039>042-191920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1246 PM CDT (1146 AM MDT) WED APR 19 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 1243 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG AND NEAR A LINE FROM NEAR MULESHOE IN BAILEY COUNTY TO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF HOCKLEY COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF SUNDOWN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH THE LITTLEFIELD AND LEVELLAND AREAS BY 130 PM. PERSONS ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THREATENING WEATHER. IF THUNDERSTORMS MOVE NEAR OR OVERHEAD...PREPARE FOR BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS... AND POSSIBLE HAIL. REMAIN INDOORS OR FIND SHELTER INDOORS...STAYING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO^ THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. DJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 31 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.