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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 24, 1996Briscoe County, Swisher County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1996, 7:34 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: May 24, 1996, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 8:05 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Briscoe County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 250035
TORLBB
TXC045-437-250105-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
734 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

   ...WESTERN BRISCOE COUNTY
   ...EASTERN SWISHER COUNTY
 
AT 732 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER
RADAR 23 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF PLAINVIEW OR 6 MILES WEST
SOUTHWEST OF MACKENZIE RESERVOIR MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... MACKENZIE
RESERVOIR.

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.

$$

RCB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Swisher	35 min
May 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Parmer	34 min
May 25, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	50 min
May 25, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	49 min
May 25, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Parmer	47 min
May 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	62 min
May 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Lynn, Terry	48 min
May 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Lynn	48 min
May 25, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.