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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1995, 4:41 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County King County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 192141 TORLBB TXC269-192215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 441 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...KING COUNTY AT 440 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF GIRARD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN KING COUNTY. 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.
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, Apr 19, 11:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 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, 3 hours 57 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, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 53 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, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 31 min |
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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.