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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 10, 1997Hale County, Swisher County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 1997, 6:03 PM CDT for Hale County, Swisher 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: Apr 10, 1997, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1997, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hale County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 10, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado F1	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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 436 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 102303 RRA
TORLBB
TXC189-437-102335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
603 PM CDT THU APR 10 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...NORTHERN HALE COUNTY

IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

   ...SWISHER COUNTY
 
AT 601 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
5 MILES WEST OF PLAINVIEW MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS ALSO INDICATED 5 MILES NORTH OF TULIA.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...      KRESS AND
  CLAYTONVILLE.

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.

$$

TMT
 

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro	34 min
Apr 10, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Lamb	49 min
Apr 10, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	66 min
Apr 10, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	63 min
Apr 10, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry	66 min
Apr 10, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	48 min
Apr 10, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro	65 min
Apr 10, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Swisher	62 min
Apr 10, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	65 min
Apr 10, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Lynn	65 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.