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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 22, 1996Childress County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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
May 22, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1996, 5:50 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Childress County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 22, 5:15 PM CDTHail 1Childress, TX
May 22, 5:30 PM CDTHail 2.5Childress, TX
May 22, 5:52 PM CDTHail 1.75Childress, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2070 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 344 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2070 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
344 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
531 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 222204
SVRLBB
TXC075-222250-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
503 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 550 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

   ...CHILDRESS COUNTY
 
AT 501 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK
DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES WEST OF CHILDRESS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
CHILDRESS                       515 PM CDT
KIRKLAND                        535 PM CDT

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

$$

RCB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.