Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1997, 9:37 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 10:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 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 02:37 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, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBB 090239 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC263-090325-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
937 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1025 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS
...KENT COUNTY
AT 935 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK
DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF JAYTON OR 15 MILES NORTH
NORTHWEST OF CLAIREMONT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
CLAIREMONT BY 1015 PM CDT
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL.
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.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, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 32 min |
| May 8, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 49 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.