Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 2, 1996Garza County, Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 9:18 PM CDT for Garza County, Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
Jun 2, 1996, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1996, 10:20 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Garza County, TX, Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 839 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey50 min
Jun 2, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale65 min
Jun 2, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall48 min
Jun 2, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran45 min
Jun 2, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley47 min
Jun 2, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall47 min
Jun 2, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock62 min
Jun 2, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLubbock47 min
Jun 2, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran61 min
Jun 2, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCochran66 min
Jun 2, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBYoakum51 min
Jun 2, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher66 min
Jun 2, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLubbock34 min
Jun 2, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley66 min
Jun 2, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby46 min
Jun 2, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum65 min
Jun 2, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Cochran65 min
Jun 2, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBYoakum36 min
Jun 2, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby50 min
Jun 2, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb65 min
Jun 3, 7:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher61 min
Jun 3, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.