Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1997, 9:05 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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
- May 6, 1997, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1997, 10:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dimmitt, TX | |
| May 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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
- 1294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 14.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBB 070206 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC069-070310-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
905 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...CASTRO COUNTY
AT 905 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK
DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DIMMITT MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
HART BY 945 PM CDT
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRO$DUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
GW/LPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| May 6, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 66 min |
| May 6, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 51 min |
| May 6, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| May 6, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 64 min |
| May 6, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 63 min |
| May 7, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 50 min |
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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.