Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1997, 4:44 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 8, 1997, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kent County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 8, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1001 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, May 8, 11:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ021>044-081930- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1145 AM CDT THU MAY 8 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING OVER THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS. THIS MORNINGS WEATHER MAP SHOWED A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT STRETCHED FROM EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO NORTHEAST TO JUST SOUTH OF LUBBOCK INTO THE NORTHERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS JUST SOUTH OF CHILDRESS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE REGION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE AND AFTERNOON HEATING AID IN PRODUCING LIFT ALONG THE FRONT. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WILL BE EAST NORTHEAST. THERE IS A THREAT OVER THESE AREAS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS IN THE OUTLOOK AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION BY MID AFTERNOON. JAMES
Special weather statement, May 8, 11:49 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ021>044-081930- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1145 AM CDT THU MAY 8 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING OVER THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS. THIS MORNING'S WEATHER MAP SHOWED A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT STRETCHED FROM EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO NORTHEAST TO JUST SOUTH OF LUBBOCK INTO THE NORTHERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS JUST SOUTH OF CHILDRESS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE REGION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE AND AFTERNOON HEATING AID IN PRODUCING LIFT ALONG THE FRONT. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WILL BE EAST NORTHEAST. THERE IS A THREAT OVER THESE AREAS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS IN THE OUTLOOK AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION BY MID AFTERNOON. JAMES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 49 min |
| 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, 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.