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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1998, 3:03 PM CDT for Crosby County, Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 26, 1998, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1998, 3:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Cone, TX | |
| Apr 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ralls, TX | A brief weak tornado was reported by the Crosby County Sheriff's Office. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
039
WFUS1 KLBB 262005 RRA
TORLBB
TXC107-153-262035-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
303 PM CDT SUN APR 26 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CROSBY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS
SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS
* UNTIL 335 PM CDT
* THE FOLLOWING LOCATION(S) MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS TORNADO...
CONE AROUND 325 PM CDT
* AT 302 PM CDT... A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF FLOYDADA OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONE... INDICATED BY NWS
DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 15 MPH.
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
LVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 58 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.