Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hale County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 022354 TORLBB TXC189-030030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 653 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN HALE COUNTY AT 648 PM...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY JUST NORTHWEST OF EDMONSON NEAR THE HALE-SWISHER COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED SEVERAL BRIEF TORNADOES AND IS CONSIDERED EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. IT WAS DRIFTING EAST TO NORTHEAST ABOUT 5 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 2:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ027>043-022020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 219 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COTTLE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 215 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST COTTLE COUNTY...ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF PADUCAH. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WHICH EARLIER APPEARED TO BE SEVERE OVER COTTLE COUNTY HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. NO OTHER PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS OR LOW ROLLING PLAINS. CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ027>043-022120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 317 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 315 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS OR LOW ROLLING PLAINS. HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS LOCATED IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ027>043-022220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 418 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BAILEY...LAMB... COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...YOAKUM...AND TERRY. THE TOWNS OF LITTLEFIELD...LEVELLAND...BROWNFIELD...PLAINS...MORTON...MULESHOE ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. AT 415 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDVICATED NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS OR LOW ROLLING PLAINS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ027>043-022220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 418 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BAILEY...LAMB... COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...YOAKUM...AND TERRY. THE TOWNS OF LITTLEFIELD...LEVELLAND...BROWNFIELD...PLAINS...MORTON...MULESHOE ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. AT 415 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS OR LOW ROLLING PLAINS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 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, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 46 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.