Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 7:17 PM CDT for Hockley County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 4 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
- Jun 11, 1997, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 8:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hockley County, TX, Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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 11, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Shallowater, TX | |
| Jun 11, 7:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Shallowater, TX | |
| Jun 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 | Lubbock Intl Arpt, TX | |
| Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Slaton, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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, Jun 11, 3:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ022>044-112345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 338 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR NEARLY ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ALL OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND MOST OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 10 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB- HALE-FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT AND STONEWALL CITIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH ARE LUBBOCK... PLAINVIEW...DENVER CITY...TULIA...LITTLEFIELD...LEVELLAND... CROSBYTON...POST...DICKENS...FLOYDADA...CHILDRESS AND ASPERMONT. A DRYLINE NEAR THE TEXAS-NEW MEXICO BORDER ALONG WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND HIGH ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE IS PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOST OF THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND NEAR WATCH AREA...INCLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES. RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SPOTTED. EOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Childress | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Childress | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 45 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.