Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- May 7, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hale County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 1891 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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 080027 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC189-080115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
726 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS
...HALE COUNTY
AT 724 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK
DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 6 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF HALE
CENTER...OR JUST EAST OF COTTON CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
NICKEL-SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
HALE CENTER BY 730 PM CDT
PETERSBURG BY 805 PM CDT
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
LVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| May 8, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 61 min |
| May 8, 5:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Kent | 114 min |
| May 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 46 min |
| May 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.