Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 8:28 AM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 29, 1997, 8:28 AM CDT (13:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1997, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hale County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 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 29, 8:37 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Plainview, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS1 KLBB 291329 RRA
SVRLBB
TXC189-291400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
828 AM CDT THU MAY 29 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS
...EASTERN HALE COUNTY
AT 826 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK
DOPPLER RADAR JUST NORTH OF PLAINVIEW MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
PLAINVIEW BY 828 AM 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.
TMTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 63 min |
| May 28, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 60 min |
| May 28, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 44 min |
| May 28, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 62 min |
| May 28, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 64 min |
| May 28, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 47 min |
| May 28, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 50 min |
| May 29, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 16 min |
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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.