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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 28, 1997Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 10:18 PM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 28, 1997, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1997, 11:05 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 28, 10:50 PM CDTHail 0.75Levelland, 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 884 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
884 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
4.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

541 
WUUS1 KLBB 290319 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC219-290405-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1018 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...NORTHERN HOCKLEY COUNTY
 
AT 1017 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK
DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF LEVELLAND OR 12 MILES
NORTHWEST OF WHITHARRAL MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
     WHITHARRAL        BY  1040 PM CDT
     LEVELLAND         BY  1055 PM CDT

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.

VALDEZ

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 28, 5:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-039>042-290025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
519 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH
   PLAINS AND PORTIONS OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-
BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN AND GARZA.

SOME CITIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE
LUBBOCK...PLAINVIEW...FRIONA...DIMMITT...TULIA...SILVERTON...
MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...FLOYDADA...MORTON...LEVELLAND...CROSBYTON...
DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA...AND POST.

AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA. THE POTENTIAL
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA THIS
EVENING.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT SEVERE WEATHER OR
TORNADOES ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.  RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REMAIN INFORMED THIS
EVENING BY LISTENING TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL
RADIO...COMMERCIAL OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LASTEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

EOS
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-039>042-290025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
519 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH
   PLAINS AND PORTIONS OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-
BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN AND GARZA.

SOME CITIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE
LUBBOCK...PLAINVIEW...FRIONA...DIMMITT...TULIA...SILVERTON...
MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...FLOYDADA...MORTON...LEVELLAND...CROSBYTON...
DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA...AND POST.

AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA. THE POTENTIAL
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA THIS
EVENING.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT SEVERE WEATHER OR
TORNADOES ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.  RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REMAIN INFOfRMED THIS
EVENING BY LISTENING TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL
RADIO...COMMERCIAL OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LASTEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

EOS
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
TXZ045>054-059>073-290300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
524 PM CDT (424 PM MDT) WED MAY 28 1997

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR THE PERMIAN
   BASIN OF TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM
CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS...GAINES-DAWSON-BORDEN-
ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK...
AND FOR LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO.

SOME CITIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE
MIDLAND...ODESSA...HOBBS...LOVINGTON...LAMESA...SEMINOLE...ANDREWS
BIG SPRING...WINK...AND KERMIT.

AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA. THE POTENTIAL
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA THIS
EVENING.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT SEVERE WEATHER OR
TORNADOES ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.  RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REMAIN INFORMED THIS
EVENING BY LISTENING TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL
RADIO...COMMERCIAL OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LASTEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ021>024-027>030-033>036-039>042-290025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
529 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH
   PLAINS AND PORTIONS OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-
BRISCOE-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-FLOYD-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN AND GARZA.

SOME CITIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE
LUBBOCK...PLAINVIEW...FRIONA...DIMMITT...TULIA...SILVERTON...
MULESHOE...LITTLEFIELD...FLOYDADA...MORTON...LEVELLAND...CROSBYTON...
DENVER CITY...BROWNFIELD...TAHOKA...AND POST.

AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA. THE POTENTIAL
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA THIS
EVENING.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT SEVERE WEATHER OR
TORNADOES ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.  RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REMAIN INFORMED THIS
EVENING BY LISTENING TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL
RADIO...COMMERCIAL OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LASTEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

EOS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb63 min
May 28, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer60 min
May 28, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBParmer47 min
May 28, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBailey44 min
May 28, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBailey62 min
May 28, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb64 min
May 28, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley50 min
May 29, 8:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale32 min
May 29, 9:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd16 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.