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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 7:37 PM CST for Castro County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 1998, 7:37 PM CST (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 1998, 8:10 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Castro County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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.
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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 310138
TORLBB
TXC069-437-310210-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
737 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CASTRO COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
NORTHWESTERN SWISHER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
* UNTIL 810 PM CST
* AT 734 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTH OF CANYON OR 9 MILES WEST OF HAPPY...
MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE CASTRO COUNTY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NORTH OF DIMMITT AT 716 PM FROM THIS
SAME STORM.
* THE FOLLOWING LOCATION(S) MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS TORNADO...
dHAPPY AROUND 750 PM CST
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, 2 hours 27 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, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.