Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1997, 9:08 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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.
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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
123 WUUS1 KLBB 090209 RRA SVRLBB TXC303-090240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 908 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...SOUTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY AT 906 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK OR IN THE VICINITY OF SLATON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN SLATON. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 44 min |
| May 8, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 50 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.