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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1998, 5:29 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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 8, 1998, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 6:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stonewall County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Aspermont, TX | |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Aspermont, TX | |
| May 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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 8, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 4642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
947
WFUS1 KLBB 082231 RRA
TORLBB
TXC433-082320-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
529 PM CDT FRI MAY 8 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN STONEWALL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS
* UNTIL 620 PM CDT
* AT 528 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF ASPERMONT MOVING NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH.
* THE FOLLOWING LOCATION(S) MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS TORNADO...
OLD GLORY AROUND 540 PM CDT
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
JVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 31 min |
| May 8, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 35 min |
| May 8, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 31 min |
| May 8, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 35 min |
| May 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 33 min |
| May 8, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 36 min |
| May 8, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd | 32 min |
| May 8, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 49 min |
| May 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 50 min |
| May 8, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 50 min |
| May 8, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 47 min |
| May 8, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.