Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1997, 8:14 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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
- May 6, 1997, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1997, 9:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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 6, 8:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hart, TX | |
| May 6, 9:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dimmitt, 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 14.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
393 WFUS1 KLBB 070115 RRA TORLBB TXC069-070205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 814 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 905 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...CASTRO COUNTY AT 813 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES SOUTH OF DIMMITT MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... HART. 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. GW/LP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| May 6, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 66 min |
| May 6, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| May 6, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 65 min |
| May 6, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 64 min |
| May 6, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 63 min |
| May 7, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 50 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.