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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 25, 1999Crosby County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1999, 7:01 PM CDT for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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 25, 1999, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1999, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Crosby County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 25, 7:25 PM CDTHail 1.75Crosbyton, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 25, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

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, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-032-037-038-042>044-252300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
516 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 238 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM...

HALL     CHILDRESS     MOTLEY     COTTLE     DICKENS     KING
GARZA    KENT          STONEWALL

LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-032-037-038-042>044-252300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
516 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 238 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM...

HALL     CHILDRESS     MOTLEY     COTTLE     DICKENS     KING
GARZA    KENT          STONEWALL

LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
Local storm report, May 25, 6:32 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
632 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 PM    5 S PLAINVIEW             TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   HALE                           BASEBALL HAIL ALONG
                                          INTERSTATE 27. REPORT
                                          RELAYED BY PLAINVIEW DAILY
                                          HERALD.
Local storm report, May 25, 6:32 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
632 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 PM    5 S PLAINVIEW             TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   HALE                           BASEBALL HAIL ALONG
                                          INTERSTATE 27. REPORT
                                          RELAYED BY PLAINVIEW DAILY
                                          HERALD.
Local storm report, May 25, 6:40 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
640 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    7 WSW SPUR                TX   2.5 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   DICKENS                        TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL
                                          ALONG HIGHWAY 261.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent17 min
May 25, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall59 min
May 25, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby35 min
May 25, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens63 min
May 25, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent47 min
May 25, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent, Stonewall42 min
May 25, 9:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro29 min
May 25, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher55 min
May 25, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher35 min
May 25, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb45 min
May 25, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd54 min
May 25, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe43 min
May 25, 10:49 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd41 min
May 25, 11:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBFloyd117 min
May 25, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey63 min
May 25, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress44 min
May 25, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley49 min
May 25, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley64 min
May 25, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran44 min
May 25, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle54 min
May 26, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens59 min
May 26, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley57 min
May 26, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley35 min
May 26, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing66 min
May 26, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock52 min
May 26, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn50 min
May 26, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lubbock51 min
May 26, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall47 min
May 26, 1:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn39 min
May 26, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza66 min
May 26, 3:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent32 min
May 26, 3:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing, Stonewall51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.