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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1999, 6:15 PM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1999, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1999, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dickens County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 |
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KLBB 162316 RRA TORLBB TXC125-162345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 615 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 614 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DICKENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE AFTON AND DICKENS. LAT...LON 3360 10096 3347 10067 3381 10053 3384 10088
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, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 43 min |
| May 16, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 35 min |
| May 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.