Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 1996, 5:18 PM CDT for Garza County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 1996, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1996, 6:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garza County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Sep 18, 2:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ021>044-182000- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 206 PM CDT WED SEP 18 1996 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION WILL COMBINE WITH A COLD FRONT NEAR THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER AND AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGION...BOTH MOVING TO 2THE EAST...TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. JV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 46 min |
| Sep 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Dickens | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 50 min |
| Sep 17, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 46 min |
| Sep 17, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 50 min |
| Sep 17, 11:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | King | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 2:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | King | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 5:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | King | 116 min |
| Sep 18, 11:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | King | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.