Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1999, 8:28 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1999, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1999, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kent County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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.
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, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, 5:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 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, 3 hours 12 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, 1 hour 56 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, 1 hour 56 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, 1 hour 48 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.
| 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, 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, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.