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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1999, 7:37 PM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 9, 1999, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickens County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 9, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dickens, 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 9, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KLBB 100039 RRA TORLBB TXC125-100115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 737 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 736 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF SPUR...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DICKENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 9, 6:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
TXZ022>044-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 623 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 231 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTH PLAINS... CASTRO SWISHER BAILEY LAMB COCHRAN HOCKLEY YOAKUM TERRY THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS... BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE WATCH AREA AND THE ATMOSPHERE HAS STABILIZED FOR THE TIME BEING WEST OF A TULIA-LEVELLAND-BROWNFIELD LINE. LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. EJC
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
TXZ022>044-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 623 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 231 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTH PLAINS... CASTRO SWISHER BAILEY LAMB COCHRAN HOCKLEY YOAKUM TERRY THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS... BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE WATCH AREA AND THE ATMOSPHERE HAS STABILIZED FOR THE TIME BEING WEST OF A TULIA-LEVELLAND-BROWNFIELD LINE. LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. EJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 2 hr |
| May 9, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 64 min |
| May 9, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 30 min |
| May 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 46 min |
| May 9, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 47 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.