Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1997, 3:05 PM CDT for Garza County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1997, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1997, 3:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garza County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 942 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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, Jul 10, 2:34 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
TXZ021>044-110140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 234 PM CDT THU JUL 10 1997 ...A FEW FUNNELS MAY BE SEEN ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS...LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SINCE 2 PM CDT...A FEW REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLIC. ONE OF THE FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY HAVE BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN EAST OF CROSBYTON...BUT NO DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED. OTHER FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY FORM THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...BUT NONE THE FUNNELS ARE EXPECTED TO TOUCH DOWN. IF A FUNNEL CLOUD APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE LOCATION SUCH AS A REINFORCED BUILDING. DAMAGE CAN BE INFLICTED AND DEBRIS THROWN ABOUT IF A FUNNEL CLOUD TOUCHES THE GROUND. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUNNELS UNTIL 9 PM. EOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.