Tornado Warning 20, NWS Lubbock, TX

Issued

Jun 4, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)

Expired

Jun 4, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Lubbock, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Hockley County, TX

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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TORLBB
TXC219-042030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
245 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...HOCKLEY COUNTY
 
AT 245 PM...SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST EAST OF THE
COMMUNITY OF SUNDOWN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND
20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

In the hours before

TXZ027>043-041915-

SOUTH PLAINS/LOW ROLLING PLAINS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1111 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE
SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF THE
SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS MORNING.  VERY MOIST AND
UNSTABLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL OVER THE AREA AND WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE FROM THE WEST...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS
LIKELY.  ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL OF
QUICKLY BECOMING SEVERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON.

TXZ027>043-041915-

SOUTH PLAINS/LOW ROLLING PLAINS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1111 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE
SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF THE
SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS MORNING.  VERY MOIST AND
UNSTABLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL OVER THE AREA AND WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE FROM THE WEST...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS
LIKELY.  ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL OF
QUICKLY BECOMING SEVERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON.

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.