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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 23, 1997Briscoe County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1997, 5:08 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1997, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Briscoe County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 23, 5:15 PM CDTHail 1Quitaque, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 23, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 245 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 23, 11:24 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro50 min
May 22, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher63 min
May 22, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro46 min
May 22, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBSwisher35 min
May 22, 8:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBSwisher118 min
May 22, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher62 min
May 22, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher43 min
May 22, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Swisher46 min
May 23, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall65 min
May 23, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall48 min
May 23, 6:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall2 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.