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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 1999, 5:49 PM CDT for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
- Apr 13, 1999, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1999, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hall County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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 132253 RRA TORLBB TXC191-132315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 549 PM CDT TUE APR 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEMPHIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MEMPHIS. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST TEXAS. AND.
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, Apr 13, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ021>044-132100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 318 PM CDT TUE APR 13 1999 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 148 CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... PARMER...BAILEY...COCHRAN...YOAKUM THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 148 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTH PLAINS...AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE ROLLING PLAINS. END...
Special weather statement, Apr 13, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ021>044-132100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 318 PM CDT TUE APR 13 1999 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 148 CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... PARMER...BAILEY...COCHRAN...YOAKUM THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 148 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTH PLAINS...AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE ROLLING PLAINS. END...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 35 min |
| Apr 13, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 48 min |
| Apr 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.