Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1997, 5:47 PM CDT for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 24, 1997, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1997, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crosby County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ralls, 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 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1069 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBB 242247 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC107-242350-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
547 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 650 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS
...CROSBY COUNTY
AT 545 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK
DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROSBYTON MOVING EAST NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
CROSBYTON BY 555 PM CDT
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGEz HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
GW/TTWhat 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 24, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ021>025-027>031-033>037-039>043-242245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 342 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND PORTIONS OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING WEST TEXAS COUNTIES... PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-MOTLEY- COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-YOAKUM-KENT-TERRY-LYNN AND GARZA COUNTIES. SOME CITIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE LUBBOCK-PLAINVIEW-FLOYDADA-DICKENS-TULIA-TAHOKA-DENVER CITY- LEVELLAND-LITTLEFIELD-DIMMITT-MULESHOE AND FRIONA. A DRYLINE LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS IS COMBINING WITH A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND DAYTIME HEATING TO CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH LATER TONIGHT AFTER SUNSET. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. IT DOES NOT MEAN SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL OR CABLE TELEVISION...OR LOCAL RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. EOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Motley | 118 min |
| May 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 63 min |
| May 24, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.