Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1996, 10:18 PM CDT for Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 4, 1996, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1996, 11:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 10:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Matador, 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 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 050320 TORLBB TXC345-050405- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1018 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...MOTLEY COUNTY AT 1018 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF MATADOR MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...MATADOR. 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 SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. $$ TMT/RCB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.