Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 6:43 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 24, 1998, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stonewall County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Aspermont, TX | |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Old Glory, 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 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 5:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ030>032-036>038-042>044-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 527 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1998 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: FLOYD...MOTLEY...COTTLE...CROSBY...DICKENS...KING...GARZA...KENT AND STONEWALL. THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IS ADVANCED PLANNING. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
Special weather statement, May 24, 5:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ030>032-036>038-042>044-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 527 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1998 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: FLOYD...MOTLEY...COTTLE...CROSBY...DICKENS...KING...GARZA...KENT AND STONEWALL. THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IS ADVANCED PLANNING. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 47 min |
| May 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 60 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.