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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1999, 12:53 AM CDT for Hockley County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min. 5 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 26, 1999, 12:53 AM CDT (05:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hockley County, TX, Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:20 AM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Lubbock, TX | |
| May 26, 1:22 AM CDT | Hail 4 | Wolfforth, TX | |
| May 26, 1:25 AM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Lubbock, TX | A hailstorm that caused significant damage in Levelland continued moving east into western Lubbock County, then turned southeast. It moved from the former Reese Air Force Base through Wolfforth and the extreme southwest tip of the City of Lubbock. Many roofs |
| May 26, 1:25 AM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Wolfforth, TX | |
| May 26, 1:44 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lubbock, 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 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, May 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ039>041-260230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 914 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR YOAKUM... TERRY...AND LYNN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ALL OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR KENT AND STONEWALL COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CST.
Special weather statement, May 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ039>041-260230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 914 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR YOAKUM... TERRY...AND LYNN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ALL OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR KENT AND STONEWALL COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CST.
Local storm report, May 26, 12:30 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 29 min |
| May 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 17 min |
| May 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 59 min |
| May 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 35 min |
| May 25, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 63 min |
| May 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 42 min |
| May 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 29 min |
| May 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 55 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 35 min |
| May 25, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 54 min |
| May 25, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 43 min |
| May 25, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 41 min |
| May 25, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd | 117 min |
| May 25, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 63 min |
| May 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 49 min |
| May 25, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 64 min |
| May 25, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 54 min |
| May 26, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 59 min |
| May 26, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 57 min |
| May 26, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 35 min |
| May 26, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 66 min |
| May 26, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 50 min |
| May 26, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lubbock | 51 min |
| May 26, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 47 min |
| May 26, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 39 min |
| May 26, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 66 min |
| May 26, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 32 min |
| May 26, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.