Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 5:12 PM CDT for Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 29, 1997, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Terry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Brownfield, 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 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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
- 811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 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 292212 RRA SVRLBB TXC445-292300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 512 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...TERRY COUNTY AT 511 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 2 MILES EAST OF BROWNFIELD MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WI:NDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. TMT &
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 29, 11:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ021>044-282000- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1130 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TODAY OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS... EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...OR THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES VERY MOIST AND SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE. HOWEVER...WARM AIR IN THE LOW TO MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD SERVE TO PROVIDE A CAP OR LID WHICH WILL INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE AREA TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. JJ
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ021>044-282000- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1130 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TODAY OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS... EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...OR THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES VERY MOIST AND SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE. HOWEVER...WARM AIR IN THE LOW TO MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD SERVE TO PROVIDE A CAP OR LID WHICH WILL INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE AREA TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. JJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 33 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.