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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 8, 1997Cochran County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1997, 8:26 PM CDT for Cochran County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1997, 9:10 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Cochran County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 090127 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC079-090210-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
826 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 910 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...COCHRAN COUNTY
 
AT 822 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO STATE LINE MOVING
EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE COMMUNITIES OF BLEDSOE...MORTON AND LEHMAN ARE IN THE PATH OF
THESE STORMS.

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
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	45 min
May 8, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran	49 min
May 8, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Yoakum	48 min
May 8, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	50 min
May 8, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lubbock	32 min
May 8, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Lynn	49 min
May 8, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent	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.