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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1995, 3:39 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1995, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | South Plains, TX | |
| Jun 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | South Plains, TX |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 852 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 052039 TORLBB TXC153-052130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 339 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTY AT 335 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTY JUST NORTH OF SOUTH PLAINS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY OF SOUTH PLAINS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 22 min |
| Jun 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.