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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 28, 1997Bailey County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1997, 8:46 PM CDT for Bailey County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 28, 1997, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Bailey County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 8:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Muleshoe, TX
May 28, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Muleshoe, 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
May 28, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 400 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

994 
WFUS1 KLBB 290147 RRA
TORLBB
TXC017-290230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
846 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...BAILEY COUNTY
 
AT 843 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER
RADAR 7 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF MULESHOE OR 3 MILES NORTH
NORTHEAST OF PROGRESS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...      PROGRESS AND
     MULESHOE.

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.

VALDEZ

The 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, 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, 8:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	32 min
May 29, 9:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	16 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.