Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

Issued

Apr 26, 1998, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)

Expired

Apr 26, 1998, 2:35 PM CDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Lubbock, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Castro County, TX

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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.

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.

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WFUS1 KLBB 261902 RRA
TORLBB
TXC069-261935-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
200 PM CDT SUN APR 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CASTRO COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 235 PM CDT

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATION(S) MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS TORNADO...
         NAZARETH                    AROUND 215 PM CDT

* AT 159 PM CDT... A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF DIMMITT OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF NAZARETH... INDICATED BY NWS
  DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTH 25 MPH.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LV

In the hours before

TXZ021>044-262000-

AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1138 AM CDT SUN APR 26 1998

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH
PLAINS AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THE FAVORED AREA FOR THESE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF A CROSBYTON-GUTHRIE LINE AND EAST
OF THE CAPROCK. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP WITH A FEW STORMS APPROACHING SEVERE LEVELS.

A STRONG DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO WILL
MOVE INTO THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THE STORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT WILL VERY SLOWLY SINK
ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING
PLAINS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH
PLAINS AND SOUTHERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

TECHNICAL DISCUSSION

AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL STRENGTHEN AND MOVE EASTWARD ALONG A
COLD FRONT THAT WAS DRAPED ACROSS THE CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS.  THIS
LOW WILL DRAG A DRYLINE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS WITH THE
TRIPLE POINT EXPECTED IN THE ABOVE FAVORED AREA BY 21Z. LI'S AS LOW
AS -8 AND CAPES UP TO 1500 JOULES ARE EXPECTED WHERE MAXIMUM HEATING
CAN BE REALIZED.

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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.