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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1997, 5:56 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1997, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
323 WFUS1 KLBB 292255 RRA TORLBB TXC437-292330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 556 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...EASTERN SWISHER COUNTY AT 553 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY LUBBOCK DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES WEST OF SILVERTON OR 7 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF CLAYTONVILLE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR CLAYTONVILLE AFTER 6 PM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 33 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.