Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 8:57 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2007, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2007, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 9:25 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Lariat, TX | |
| Mar 23, 9:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Bovina, TX | GARAGE DESTROYED TO THE NORTH NORTHWEST OF BOVINA. RADAR DATA INDICATED A TIGHT ROTATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 240159 TORLUB TXC369-240230- /O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0003.070324T0157Z-070324T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 857 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN PARMER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS. * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 854 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THIS STORM WILL BE STRONG WINDS. HOWEVER...A BRIEF TORNADO IS POSSIBLE. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FARWELL...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF MULESHOE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FARWELL AND BOVINA. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3432 10303 3432 10291 3448 10276 3466 10302 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KLUB 240211 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 910 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 TXC369-240230- /O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070324T0230Z/ PARMER TX- 910 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN PARMER COUNTY... AT 907 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST PARMER COUNTY...ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF FARWELL. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FARWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FARWELL AND BOVINA. A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LAT...LON 3432 10303 3432 10291 3448 10276 3466 10302 $$
000 WWUS54 KLUB 240221 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 920 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 TXC369-240230- /O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070324T0230Z/ PARMER TX- 920 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN PARMER COUNTY... AT 916 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN WEST CAMP AND FARWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ADDITIONALLY...RADAR WAS INDICATING ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF FARWELL. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FARWELL...BOVINA AND HIGHWAY 60. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW LAT...LON 3432 10303 3432 10291 3448 10276 3466 10302 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 62 min |
| Mar 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 66 min |
| Mar 23, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 57 min |
| Mar 23, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 58 min |
| Mar 23, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 39 min |
| Mar 23, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cochran | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 11:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 11:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 46 min |
| Mar 23, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 28 min |
| Mar 24, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 18 min |
| Mar 24, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.