Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 1, 1999, 8:43 PM CDT for Hale County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 1, 1999, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1999, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hale County, TX, Lamb County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Olton, TX | Another brief tornado touchdown in open country was reported. No survey was conducted. |
| May 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Halfway, TX | A tornado touched down and remained in open country for several minutes. No survey was conducted. |
| May 1, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Olton, TX | Golfball to baseball size hail was reported. |
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 1, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 1, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Castro | 2 hr |
| May 1, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 34 min |
| May 1, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 33 min |
| May 1, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 34 min |
| May 1, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 34 min |
| May 1, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 48 min |
| May 2, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 49 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.