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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1997, 3:49 AM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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 30, 1997, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 4:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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 30, 3:50 AM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Mc Coy, 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 300848 RRA TORLBB TXC153-300920- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 349 AM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 420 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...SOUTHWESTERN FLOYD COUNTY THE HALE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF PETERSBURG MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHWESTERN FLOYD COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE RURAL SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST FLOYD COUNTY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. JWL/WGH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 51 min |
| May 29, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 46 min |
| May 29, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 64 min |
| May 29, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 64 min |
| May 29, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 65 min |
| May 29, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 46 min |
| May 29, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 64 min |
| May 29, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 64 min |
| May 29, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 31 min |
| May 30, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 30 min |
| May 30, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 35 min |
| May 30, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 34 min |
| May 30, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 61 min |
| May 30, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 35 min |
| May 30, 3:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 30 min |
| May 30, 3:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby | 31 min |
| May 30, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 47 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.