Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1997, 6:09 PM CST for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 2, 1997, 6:09 PM CST (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1997, 6:40 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:16 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Dimmitt, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 030008 RRA SVRLBB TXC069-030040- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 609 PM CST WED APR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 640 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...CASTRO COUNTY AT 605 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES NORTH OF DIMMITT OR ALONG HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN DIMMITT AND HEREFORD...NEAR THE COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WWAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATED 1 TO 2 INCH HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE IVNTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. $$ JWL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 46 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.