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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 16, 1999Dickens County, King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1999, 7:26 PM CDT for Dickens County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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 16, 1999, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1999, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dickens County, TX, King County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 16, 7:34 PM CDTTornado F0Dickens, TXA storm chaser reported a tornado in open country on the Pitchfork Ranch. The tornado was on the ground for several minutes. No NWS survey was conducted.
May 16, 7:35 PM CDTHail 1.75Guthrie, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 16, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4356 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLUB 170028 RRA
TORLBB
TXC125-269-170100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
726 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS  
  WESTERN KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF
  GUTHRIE...OR NEAR PITCHFORK RANCH IN EXTREME EASTERN DICKENS       
  COUNTY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE GROW...
  GUTHRIE...FINNEY AND DUMONT.

LAT...LON 3346 10072 3347 10028 3383 10017 3384 10065

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress28 min
May 16, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent35 min
May 16, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle46 min
May 16, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall42 min
May 16, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKing31 min
May 16, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens49 min
May 16, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing32 min
May 16, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle15 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.