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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1995, 6:39 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1995, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kent County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 052340 TORLBB TXC263-060045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 639 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...KENT COUNTY AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER NORTHERN KENT COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF CLAIREMONT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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 5, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ027>043-052100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 254 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 250 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHEASTERN LUBBOCK COUNTY FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK TO 5 MILES NORTH OF SLATON. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY NEAR WOODROW AND IN SOUTHEASTERN TERRY COUNTY. A THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE SOUTHEAST OF SILVERTON. THESE STORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. JAMES
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, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 51 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 |
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.