Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1999, 6:46 PM CDT for Dickens County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- May 16, 1999, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1999, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dickens County, TX, King County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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 16, 6:49 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Dickens, TX | |
| May 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dickens, TX | A storm chaser reported a tornado in open country on the Pitchfork Ranch. The tornado was on the ground for several minutes. No NWS survey was conducted. |
| May 16, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Guthrie, 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 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 4359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 50 min |
| May 16, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 39 min |
| May 16, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 48 min |
| May 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 50 min |
| May 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 40 min |
| May 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 52 min |
| May 16, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 47 min |
| May 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 30 min |
| May 16, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 43 min |
| May 16, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.