Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 7:01 PM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickens County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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 16, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Spur, TX | |
| Jun 16, 7:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dickens, TX | |
| Jun 16, 7:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Spur, 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 16, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 16, 2:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:05 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
TXZ021-027-033-039-162325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 605 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED: PARMER BAILEY COCHRAN YOAKUM. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: CASTRO SWISHER BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS LAMB HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE HOCKLEY LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING TERRY LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:06 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
TXZ021-027-033-039-162325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 605 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED: PARMER BAILEY COCHRAN YOAKUM. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: CASTRO SWISHER BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS LAMB HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE HOCKLEY LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING TERRY LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:16 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
TXZ022-023-028-034-040-162335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 616 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED: SWISHER CASTRO LAMB HOCKLEY TERRY. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA UNTIL 8 PM...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
TXZ022-023-028-034-040-162335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 616 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED: SWISHER CASTRO LAMB HOCKLEY TERRY. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA UNTIL 8 PM...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 62 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.