Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1999, 9:56 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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
- Jun 11, 1999, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1999, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 10:41 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Lubbock, TX | |
| Jun 11, 10:42 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Lubbock, TX | |
| Jun 11, 10:42 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 84 | Lubbock, TX | A 97 mph wind gust was recorded by the wind equipment at KAMC-TV. |
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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lynn | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lynn | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Terry | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Kent | 113 min |
| Jun 11, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 1:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 105 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.