Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1997, 9:47 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 22, 1997, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
069 WUUS1 KLBB 230248 RRA SVRLBB TXC437-230330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 947 PM CDT THU MAY 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...SWISHER COUNTY AT 945 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TULIA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH...AND ANOTHER 8 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF TULIA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. TULIA COULD FEEL THE EFFECTS OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CURRENTLY OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF SWISHER COUNTY BETWEEN 1015 PM AND 1030 PM. THE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHEAST OF TULIA IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS THROUGH 1030 PM. 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. PV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 50 min |
| May 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 63 min |
| May 22, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 46 min |
| May 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 35 min |
| May 22, 8:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Swisher | 118 min |
| May 22, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 62 min |
| May 22, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 46 min |
| May 23, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 65 min |
| May 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 37 min |
| May 23, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 48 min |
| May 23, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 2 hr |
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.