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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1998, 3:45 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- May 8, 1998, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 4:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hale County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:49 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 82 | Plainview, TX | |
| May 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Plainview, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
138 WFUS1 KLBB 082047 RRA TORLBB TXC189-082120- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 345 PM CDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HALE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 420 PM CDT * AT 343 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF PLAINVIEW MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
The 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, 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 |
| May 8, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 51 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.