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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1996, 5:57 PM CDT for Lynn County, Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 25, 1996, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Union, TX | |
| May 25, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Tahoka, TX | |
| May 25, 6:49 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Tahoka, 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 252258 TORLBB TXC305-445-252345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 557 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...WESTERN LYNN COUNTY ...EASTERN TERRY COUNTY AT 555 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 19 MILES EAST OF SEAGRAVES OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF UNION MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... UNION AND NEW MOORE. 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. $$ JJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 31 min |
| 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.