Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1997, 5:47 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1997, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Hall County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Silverton, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 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
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
Local storm report, May 23, 5:40 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
540 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM QUITAQUE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/23/97 BRISCOE
0515 PM QUITAQUE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/23/97 BRISCOELocal storm report, May 23, 5:41 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
540 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM QUITAQUE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/23/97 BRISCOE
0515 PM QUITAQUE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/23/97 BRISCOEThe 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, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 43 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.