Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 6:26 PM CDT for Crosby County, Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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 14, 1997, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 14, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Floydada, 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 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
TXZ041-142035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 314 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 310 PM...55 MPH WINDS AND HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZED WERE REPORTED BY A WEATHER SERVICE COOP-OBSERVER IN NORTHEAST LYNN COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ041-142035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 314 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 310 PM...55 MPH WINDS AND HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZED WERE REPORTED BY A WEATHER SERVICE COOP-OBSERVER IN NORTHEAST LYNN COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ033-142110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 351 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 350 PM...CHANNEL 11 TELEVISION STATION REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS FALLING IN WHITEFACE.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ033-142110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 351 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 350 PM...CHANNEL 11 TELEVISION STATION REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS FALLING IN WHITEFACE.(
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cochran | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 6:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Kent | 2 hr |
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.