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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 22, 1997Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1997, 6:19 PM CDT for Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 22, 1997, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1997, 7:05 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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
Apr 22, 6:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Plains, TX
Apr 22, 6:55 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Denver City, 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

577 
WFUS1 KLBB 222319 RRA
TORLBB
TXC501-230005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
619 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 705 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...YOAKUM COUNTY
 
AT 620 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER
RADAR 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLAINS OR 9 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
BRONCO MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...

    BRONCO AND PLAINS.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.


JJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Lubbock	63 min
Apr 22, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	46 min
Apr 22, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	32 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.