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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 6:57 PM CST for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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
- Oct 30, 1998, 6:57 PM CST (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 1998, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Dimmitt, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Oct 30, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 310058 TORLBB TXC069-310130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 657 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CASTRO COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 654 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIMMITT... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM MAY EVENTUALLY MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 160 BUT OTHERWISE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Oct 30, 5:10 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TXZ021-022-027>029-033>035-039>041-302345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 510 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998 THE NATION WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE HANDLE. COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE: PARMER CASTRO BAILEY LAMB HALE COCHRAN HOCKLEY LUBBOCK YOAKUM TERRY LYNN REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS . JV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 48 min |
| Oct 30, 6:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 32 min |
| Oct 30, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 17 min |
| Oct 30, 7:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 33 min |
| Oct 31, 12:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Parmer | 3 hr |
| Oct 31, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 31 min |
| Oct 31, 11:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Castro | 118 min |
| Oct 31, 11:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 49 min |
| Oct 31, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.